Wrestling Hall Honors Trio

Jockey Pat Day, sportscaster Dan Dierdorf and former U.S. President William Howard Taft were elected to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame’s Hall of Outstanding Americans.

It’s the second Hall of Fame for Day, who was honored by the horse racing community in 1991. Day has ridden more than 6,500 winners during his career, including 1992 Kentucky Derby champion Lil E. Tee.

He will be forced to miss the June 7 induction ceremony because he’s riding in the Belmont Stakes that day.

Dierdorf was an All-Pro offensive lineman in the NFL with the St. Louis Cardinals before retiring in 1983. An analyst on ABC-TV’s Monday Night Football, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame last year.

Taft, elected posthumously, was the 27th president of the U.S., serving from 1909-13. He later served as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1921-30, when he was forced to resign because of illness. He died on March 8, 1930.

All three wrestled in high school.