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Posted By: Scott M

Since players from other sports have been mentioned and, being the hockey fanatic that I am, Bill Barilko deserves a mention in this thread.

Barilko scored the stanley cup winning goal for the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1951 and was at the top of his career only to disappear 4 months later as a passenger on a small plane coming back from a fishing trip in Northern Canada.

It took over 10 years before the wreckage of the plane was finally discovered and his fate confirmed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Barilko