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    I'm thinking of a person

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    1 hour ago, qwksilver said:

    Is he a sprinter?

       Excuse me for not answering this, somehow I missed it.  Also I just figured out that if you reply to the person a little notice pops up to the person you replied to so that is the best way to answer.   I am a bit slow sometimes.  My wife debates the "sometimes."

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    I'm thinking of a person

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    30 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

     

    I was thinking maybe Dick Fosbury because he revolutionized the way the high jump was done 🤷🏾‍♂️

     

    I’m thinking of a person...

     

    White male, American, dead...

     

     

     

     

     

     Athlete?

    I'm thinking of a person

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    Just now, Johnny Hammersticks said:

     

    I have 2 guesses, but I’m going to go against my gut and guess long jumper, Bob Beamon.

           I'd like to hear your other one but you are correct Bob Beamon is the answer.   He crushed the competition and the long jump world record by 21 and 2/3 inches.  Who ever did better than that?

     

         You are IT.

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    1 minute ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

    Indulge me for a second.   So @Gugny and @BringBackFergy can see...😆 

     

    "Pullman was born in 1831 in Brocton, New York, the son of Emily Caroline (Minton) and carpenter James Lewis Pullman.[2] His family moved to Albion, New York, along the Erie Canal in 1845, so his father could help widen the canal. His father had invented a machine using jackscrews that could move buildings or other structures out of the way and onto new foundations and had patented it in 1841. By that time, packet boats carried people on day excursions along the canal, plus travellers and freight craft would be towed across the state along the busy canal."

     

    😆 🤣 

     

    Okay.   Carry on!  Individual sport?

       Yes

    I'm thinking of a person

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    1 minute ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

    George Pullman.  Pullman,  Washington. Pullman, Michigan.  Pullman, W.Virginia.  AND the original company town: Pullman, Illinois which is now a neighborhood in one of the 77 neighborhoods of Chicago.

     

    Gpullman.jpg

     

    Born in Brockton, New York... Chautauqua, County... 

    Sports?

         Yes.

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    I'm thinking of a person

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    1 hour ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

    *No. Again, the guy I am thinking of was born in New York, in the Western New York sub-region of Upstate New York. Frozen foods was not his industry.  But, his industry helped frozen foods.

     

    Sorry for the delay guys. My TRAIN was as little delayed.  But, I SLEPT well last night.  I just woke up.

     

    *[Clarence Birdseye is a good one!  Wasn't BFLo at the forefront of the Frozen Food Business too with "Freezer Queen?"]

     

     

     

    Another hint: He plied his trade, literally a stone's throw from where I work. And sometimes those workers threw those stones!!!

     

     

    Too much of a giveaway?  😆 🤣 

      Pullman?  Don't know his first name.  Not even sure I spelled it correctly.

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    16 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

    Oh... Roger Bannister was a neurologist.   He'd rather have been known for that.  Is that considered a "scientist?"

    Sorta.  LoL... His invention does, IMO... But you gotta be pretty old to remember!  😃 

     

    Two towns named after him roughly about 2,000 miles apart from each other...

        I didn't know how to answer the "Scientist" question.  A neurologist is sort of but is more thought of as a doctor.  If I said yes or no it would have set the direction so I said 

    "he wasn't known as".  Consider that a 35 yard punt.

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    Just now, ExiledInIllinois said:

    Roger Bannister

       Nice guess, your IT.

     

       Oddly I think of my father when I think of him.  It was thought that it was impossible to break the 4 minute mile, after Bannister did it, several did it soon after.  My father said it was because some thought it could not be done and that held them back.  He said I should never think anything was impossible so I would not be held back by it.  Nice thought.

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