 In distance running, Miki (Michiko) Gorman won the Boston and New York City marathons twice in the 1970s.A former American record holder at the distance, she is the only woman to win both races twice, and is one of only two women to win both marathons in the same year.In professional sports, "Nisei"-born Wataru Misaka made the New York Knicks roster in 1947 as the first person of color to play in modern professional basketball, just months after Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers.