Your Typical FBI Agent/Badminton Champ Story
From FARK SPORTS late yesterday: Joe Alston worked major cases for the FBI, including the Patty Hearst kidnapping. He also won a dozen national championships in badminton. He’s also the only player from that sport to ever appear on the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.
Three weeks ago, amid little fanfare, Alston died from complications of cardiac arrest. He was 81.
