UTK Special 3/3/22

Bannister's Wall

Sir Roger Bannister passed away in 2018, but his influence is felt in baseball today. In May 1954, Bannister took ten seconds off the time he’d done in 1952 to be the first man to run a mile under four minutes. He did it on a cinder track, with pacers and a small crowd, but the record was the record. He did a 58 second first lap, a flat minute for the s…