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Mary Bacon

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Athlete

The Resume

    (1948-June 8, 1991)
    Won 286 races and $997,117 as a jockey
    Chosen by Revlon as their Charlie Girl
    'The Lady is a Jock' is her biography by Lynn Haney

Why she might be annoying:

    At a Ku Klux Klan meeting, she said: 'When one of your wives or sisters gets raped by a nigger, maybe then you will get smart and join the klan' (1974).
    That comment cost her the Revlon contract, and a movie studio dropped a film about her life.
    She decided to backtrack, saying some of her best friends were black.
    She was divorced.
    She has a bluebird tattoo on her stomach.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She is the first female jockey to be a leading apprentice (1969).
    Dying of cancer, she committed suicide (1991).
    She posed semi nude in Playboy (1973).
    She rode three races, just hours after giving birth to her first child.
    She broke 50 bones in her body.
    She wore flowered bikini panties under her jockey silks, jokingly claiming it would give the jockeys behind her something to look at.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 43 Votes: 53.49% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 19 Votes: 73.68% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 23 Votes: 65.22% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 124 Votes: 56.45% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 15 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 30 Votes: 56.67% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 142 Votes: 47.18% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 42 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 824 Votes: 47.69% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 97 Votes: 47.42% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 115 Votes: 53.04% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 347 Votes: 31.70% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 276 Votes: 68.12% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 427 Votes: 68.62% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 553 Votes: 67.27% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 554 Votes: 69.13% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 819 Votes: 70.09% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 2496 Votes: 67.11% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 468 Votes: 64.96% Annoying