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OLYMPIAN
KEAPOLIS
JUL
6.
1990
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Eddic Eagan
MN
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EDDIE EAGAN
First Day of Issue: July 6, 1990
First Issue Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Few men can claim to have combined brains and brawn
as effectively as Edward “Eddie" Eagan (1898-1967), the
only man to have earned gold medals in both the Summer
and Winter Olympics. At the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp,
Belgium, Eagan won a gold medal in boxing as a light
heavyweight. He extended his record of excellence to
winter sports, becoming a member of the 1932 United
States four-man bobsled team at Lake Placid, New York.
But Eagan's record of achievement did not end on the
sweat-stained canvas or polished ice. Though born to a
poor family in Denver, Colorado, Eagan graduated from
both Yale University and Harvard Law School, then
continued his education in Oxford, England, as a Rhodes
Scholar. Eagan patterned his life after Frank Merriwell, a
fictional hero of the dime novels that were popular at the
time. In the early 1930's, Eagan wrote, “To this day, I have
never used tobacco, because Frank didn't. My first glass
of wine, which I do not care for, was taken under social
compulsion in Europe. Frank never drank."
No. 90-26
©1990 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
® Original painting by Tom McNeely
