TWINS IN SPORTS– WITH ONE MISTAKEN IDENTITY STORY (COMMENT).

TWINS IN SPORTS –WITH ONE MISTAKEN IDENTITY STORY (COMMENT). Successful twins seem to be more common in sports than in politics. There were the Van Arsdale twins in basketball, who had remarkably similar careers. I saw them play when they were at Indiana. Dick Van Arsdale played 12 seasons in the NBA and scored 15,079 points and had 3057 rebounds; Tom Van Arsdale played 12 seasons in the NBA and scored 14, 232 points and had 3942 rebounds. I was glad to see that they played together their last year. In the middle of their careers, there was a story about a teammate coming up to one of them and saying, “Guess what! We traded for your brother!” Wonderful! Who did we give up?” “You.” The Gullickson twins were very successful in tennis, especially in doubles. One was left handed and the other was right handed. Unlike almost every other successful tennis player, they had not played the junior circuit and were not well known to other players. This led to a story about a European pro fuming that after beating him playing right handed, Gullickson had shown him up by beating him the next week playing left handed.