Maxie Parks

Maxwell Lander ("Maxie") Parks (born July 9, 1951) is an American former athlete from Fresno, California.

[3] In 1977 he ran on the 1977 IAAF Athletics World Cup, anchoring the 4 × 400 m relay team to what appeared to be a runaway victory when he collapsed on the track with a severely pulled hamstring 150m from the finish.

[5] Prior to UCLA he was a graduate of Washington Union High School,[6] then Fresno City College.

In the publicity for the event, Parks is stated as having received the honour of being, in 1990, inducted into the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame.

Parks was ranked among the best in the US and the world in the 400 m/440 y events over the period 1973 to 1978, according to the votes of the experts of Track and Field News.