John J. "Jack" Byrne, an...

...insurance executive, died at age 80. From his obit in the Times (my emphasis):

Mr. Byrne’s stature only grew in 1985, when he took Fireman’s Fund public in what was then the biggest initial stock offering in history. Warren E. Buffett, who made some of his billions investing in Geico at the time Mr. Byrne was hired to reverse its downward spiral, called Mr. Byrne “the Babe Ruth of insurance.”

Mr. Byrne succeeded by wielding a sharp pencil to cut costs, making cautious but wise bets and juggling many financial balls. In 2000, Forbes magazine said he “made insurance look sexy.”

“Jack Byrne has distinguished himself as one of the insurance industry’s pre-eminent general managers, most creative turnaround experts and most productive capital managers,” the Insurance Hall of Fame said when it inducted him in 2009. 

Babe Ruth? Sexy? The insurance industry has a Hall of Fame? Really?