Your all time favorite athletes
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Baseball - Catfish Hunter
Hockey - Bobby Orr. Mario Lemieux
Football - Terry Bradshaw Joe Burrow
Basketball. Dr. J
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Baseball - Pedro Martinez/David Ortiz
Hockey - Ray Bourque/Cam Neely
Football - Tedy Bruschi/Rob Gronkowski
Basketball - Michael Jordan/Larry Bird/Tim Duncan/David Robinson
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Al Bridwell. Bridwell played shortstop on the 1908 New York Giants team and he played a pivotal roll in the famous " Merkel's Boner Incident." We were pen pals during the last few years of his life. One time he wrote me a very detailed account of the Merkel incident. It was a wonderful eyewitness account with many personal angles to it including quotes from players in the clubhouse after the game. Better than anything I've ever read about it anywhere else. Its priceless to me. The two pictures of him are from baseball cards that he sent to me. They are not the actual cards that I have. He would also send me other small souviners from the early days of baseball. Such a nice and kind old man. His letters stopped coming and soon after I read in the news paper that he had passed. I think of him very, very often.
P.S. Bridwell said that Koufax threw faster than "Big Train" Walter Johnson and that Willie Mays was the best player he ever saw.
Tom Brady, James White, Julian Edelman, Gronk, Pedro Martinez, Big Papi
Manny Ramirez was always a favorite until he forced his way out of the Red Sox
Steve Yzerman
Kirk Gibson
Barry Sanders
Vinnie Johnson
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Tommy, Reggie white, LT, Marino
Roger clemens, Frank Thomas, George Brett
Larry Bird, Hakeem Olajuwon, Ewing
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
The Microwave! Out of all those Pistons, he somehow ended being by FAR the wealthiest.
My list would be half the same:
Steve Yzerman
Barry Sanders
Joe Dumars
Alan Trammell
Yzerman is far and away my favorite athlete. Like not even close.
I considered Dumars ( was my neighbor when I lived in Michigan) and Trammell as well. Class acts
Vinnie is estimate to be worth 400 million. Not too shabby
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Gotta go with Ted Williams. Always magic in the air when he came to bat. I was fortunate to have seen him play a few times in Fenway. Great memories.
Larry Bird, just because he was the epitome of a professional basketball player.
The Patriots team, through the years, the crappy weather, the snow, the cold and the performances were exceptional.
Yes. But not because of what he did on the field. He was a very nice man. An American Patroit......there isn't a single athlete that I care a hoot about because of what they did on the field...... THEY'RE A DIME A DOZEN.......Ted Williams.....the sports writers did not like him. The feeling was mutual. The writers didn't like him because he had no interest in the hype and bullsh*t that they peddled. Don't believe anything you read about him. They were all ga-ga for the Yankee Clipper.....A true jerk. I say that because of the time he cussed out the teenage future Lovely Mrs. Hydrant! She gave it back to him in spades! Tells you everything......hey,.....the biggest baseball thrill of my life?......when I was very young, Ted Williams came over to me, remembered me, called me by my first name, asked me how playing 1st. base was going, and gave me some tips. I was in awe.......ball players are a dime a dozen. Ted Williams was a MAN who just happened to play baseball. An American HERO!
Loren Toews
Nate Thurmond
Willie McCovey
Andre Agassi
Jimmy Connors
Novak Djokovic
Terry Bradshaw
Willie Stargell
Barry Bonds
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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Willie McCovey was a cool sight to see in the batter's box. The bat looked like a toothpick in his hands!
Wes Parker. The slickest fielding 1st Baseman of all time! But more than that?.....A true gentleman.
Football - Jim Brown
Basketball - Jordan
Baseball - Rocky Colavito
Golf - Fred Funk
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Football - Walter Payton
Basketball - Ray Allen
Baseball - Vladimir Guerrero Sr.
Golf - Jordan Spieth
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Baseball - Pedro Martinez
Boxing - Joe Louis
Basketball - Pete Maravich
Football - Ronnie Lott
#1 Larry Legend
#2 Brady
#3 Marvelous Marvin Hagler
#4 Jim Rice
football - Russell Wilson
Baseball - Edgar Martinez
Basketball- Chris Webber
Baseball : Mariano and Bernie Williams,
Football: Thurman Thomas and Andre Reed,
Hockey: Toews and Kane,
Hoops: MJ and Tim Duncan
Golf: Nicklaus and John Daly (an odd couple),
Tennis: since I have not watched in a long time Jimmy Connors and Ilie Năstase. Honarable mention to Gabriela Sabatini.