Obscure sports trivia

Threw this out there a couple of days ago but it didn't get much traction.
The answers are Paul Gillespie and John Miller.

Gillespie was a catcher for the Cubs during the World War II years. He had a decent year in 1945 when the Cubs won the NL pennant, but never played after that. He hit six career home runs over parts of three seasons.

Miller was an even more obscure outfielder/first baseman who played in the late 60s. He played a total of 32 games in two seasons, 1966 with the Yankees and 1969 with the Dodgers, and hit two career home runs -- in his first at-bat and his last. Those two home runs also accounted for the only three RBIs of his career, and two of the four runs that he scored.
Miller played in Japan for three seasons after he left the Dodgers and did a lot better, hitting a respectable 79 home runs.

 

Twice

 

I can't think of a race that was cut short because of a fatality (unless it was near the checkered flag anyway): NASCAR, F1, NHRA, Indy. The show must go on.

 

The IndyCar crash where Dan Wheldon died was stopped after 11 laps and then they canceled it during the ensuing delay.
NASCAR hasn't had one in an actual race since Dale Earnhardt, and that was on the last lap so the race was over anyway. The last one before that was McDuffie. There were several in between that were in practice, so I'd assume those sessions were canceled afterward.
Reading up a bit, Formula One did restart the race after Ayrton Senna's crash in 1994.
Formula One had a couple of people die of racing-related injuries this past decade, but they died hours later at the hospital and not immediately at the track. Most of the time that the races have restarted, I'd assume, were for similar reasons. The injured drivers left the track in bad shape but alive.

 

Wheldon's crash wasn't just a crash. It took out half the field. Greg Moore was killed early in a race, and they went on.
Scott Kalitta was killed in qualifying, but the NHRA raced the next day. Oddly enough, Darrell Russell was killed in the second round against Kalitta four years earlier. Blaine Johnson was killed at the U.S. Nationals, and eliminations for all classes continued.
There was an F1 death at Montreal several years after Senna where they finished the race, but I can't remember who it was. I think Schumacher won, and the podium was subdued.

 

Easy one, but sort of fascinating. There are 25 men in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in as coaches. Eleven of them were head coaches in 1969. Name them:

 

Don Shula, Chuck Noll, Vince Lombardi, George Allen, George Halas, Tom Landry, John Madden, Hank Stram, Weeb Ewbanks, Bud Grant and Paul Brown?

I don’t remember what I had for breakfast but came up with those

 

Lombardi, Brown, Shula, Ewbank, Landry, Noll, Stram, Madden, Gillman.

Who am I missing?

 

I see above I'm missing George Allen and Bud Grant. Shame on me.

 

Halas wasn't coaching in '69.

 

I wasn't sure on Halas and Brown

 

Wai

Brown was coaching the Bengals.