Terence Spinks Terence Spinks Terence "Terry" George Spinks MBE (28 February 1938 – 26 April 2012) was a boxer from Great Britain, who won the gold medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the final he defeated Mircea Dobrescu of Romania on points. He was also British featherweight champion from 1960 to 1961. He was an apprentice jockey before finding boxing to be more lucrative. Spinks had 200 amateur fights, and was the 1956 ABA flyweight champion. Spinks had 49 professional bouts of which he won 41. He had his first professional
Scipio Spinks Scipio Spinks Scipio Ronald Spinks (born July 12, 1947) is a former right handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1969 through 1973 for the Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Spinks was a promising prospect until injuries prematurely ended his career. Spinks graduated from Harlan High School in Chicago and was drafted by the Astros organization in 1966. That August, he set a record in the Northern League by striking out 20 batters in a game. In 1968, he went 9–6 with a 2.27 earned run average in the Carolina League. He was