The First Four-Minute Mile, In One Pain-Wracked Photo
by David Davis from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3HJV3)
Sir Roger Bannister died over the weekend at the age of 88 and, as to be expected, the glowing obituaries focused on his epochal mile of May 6, 1954, when he shattered the four-minute barrier on Oxford University's Iffley Road track.