Right it's not like top athletes smoked like chimneys. It was a vice that a lot of people had -- people who were still used to dying in ways that were fairly mysterious to them. Smoking was a competing danger of killing a person. Depending on how far back you go, there was a lot of competition.
I was just thinking about all the fat smoking cricketers too. They ate and drank like shit some of them. And it didn't matter all too much, particuarly for baseball and cricket. Yes you need to run a bit, but just hit it pretty good and you're fine.
There's also an effect where it wasn't treated as seriously back in the day, less competative and athletic science wasn't as developed. World class means something new and more elite now.
First 4 minute mile was in 1952. Nearly 2000 people have done it since then.
There's a reason I was a baseball player. I tried soccer. But that involved running ass off all day. Outfield not so much. Batting only in short spurts.
To this day, if I play soccer with people they run their ass off for an hour. I don't know how they do that.
Right it's not like top athletes smoked like chimneys. It was a vice that a lot of people had -- people who were still used to dying in ways that were fairly mysterious to them. Smoking was a competing danger of killing a person. Depending on how far back you go, there was a lot of competition.
This is why you see all sorts of pro baseball players smoking in the dugout until about 1970.
Lol I said athletes.
True. Babe Ruth's diet and John Kruk, formerly of the Phillies, come to mind.
I was just thinking about all the fat smoking cricketers too. They ate and drank like shit some of them. And it didn't matter all too much, particuarly for baseball and cricket. Yes you need to run a bit, but just hit it pretty good and you're fine.
There's also an effect where it wasn't treated as seriously back in the day, less competative and athletic science wasn't as developed. World class means something new and more elite now.
First 4 minute mile was in 1952. Nearly 2000 people have done it since then.
There's a reason I was a baseball player. I tried soccer. But that involved running ass off all day. Outfield not so much. Batting only in short spurts.
To this day, if I play soccer with people they run their ass off for an hour. I don't know how they do that.