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JerseyJersey Posts: 542
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Considering ALL sports, who were the three (3) best athletes ever?
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    WondoWondo Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Considering ALL sports, who were the three (3) best athletes ever? >>



    Deion (I really hate including him)
    Jim Thorpe
    Bo Jackson


    I used multi-sport guys as my criteria. I'm sure many single sport guys are obviuosly fantastic athletes.
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    AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    Jim Thorpe is a huge jump ahead of the pack.

    Bo Jackson #2.

    And my third is going to be a stretch to a lot...

    #3 Babe Ruth. Most people only know the images of him late in his career and life, where his life of partying and hard living showed its signs. But the man was an absolute beast, and how many other members of the 500 HR club also won 20 games in a season?
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    DirtyDog48DirtyDog48 Posts: 298
    Jim Thorpe
    Pele
    Al Oerter
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    stevekstevek Posts: 27,759 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1. Jim Thorpe
    2. Jim Brown
    3. About 10 or 20 tied for third
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    VintagegolfcollectorVintagegolfcollector Posts: 226


    1. Jim Thorpe (who else could it be?)

    2. Babe D. Zaharias (what desire)

    3. Jesse Owens (talk about courage)


    The top two are easy choices, # 3 is more difficult but I will go with Jesse Owens.
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    vikesfan40vikesfan40 Posts: 104
    Jim Brown is considered by many experts to be the best football player AND the best lacrosse player in history.

    Anybody else you can say was the best ever in TWO SPORTS?
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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 22,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Impossible to answer...

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    frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,046 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1. Michael Jordan

    2. Babe Ruth

    3. Jackie Robinson (played college football, baseball, and basketball)


    Honorable mention - Dave Winfield (drafted by MLB, NBA, and NFL)

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    kuhlmannkuhlmann Posts: 3,326 ✭✭
    1. lance armstrong
    2. wayne gretzky
    3. well ME!
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    stevekstevek Posts: 27,759 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <<<well ME >>>

    Who is Wellme? Never heard of him.
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    DirtyHarryDirtyHarry Posts: 1,914 ✭✭
    Jim Thorpe, Muhammed Ali, Babe Ruth.
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    CubfanCubfan Posts: 1,545
    Wilt Chamberlain. Basketball, championship calibre track in college and volleyball. Incredible athleticism for such a big man. Could do whatever he wanted on the basketball court.

    Just add to the above lists.
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    dirtmonkeydirtmonkey Posts: 3,048 ✭✭
    Wilt Chamberlain. Basketball, championship calibre track in college and volleyball. Incredible athleticism for such a big man. Could do whatever he wanted on the basketball court


    Yeah, and he had sex with 10.,000 + women. This guy was a machine image
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    Gemmy10Gemmy10 Posts: 2,990 ✭
    Chico Esquela BAR NONE!!!!

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    DirtyHarryDirtyHarry Posts: 1,914 ✭✭
    Gemmy - just to advise.....that is a fictional character. I am disappointed in you -- where are the Yankee posts...spring training is underway!!!!!
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    lonroylonroy Posts: 77
    Michael Jordan hands down.
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    lonroylonroy Posts: 77
    Then Babe Ruth 2nd on my list. For those saying Wilt Chamberlin. How can he best Athlete of All-Time when he wasn't even the best Basketball player of all-time?
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    TimeMachineTimeMachine Posts: 261
    1. Jim Thorpe
    2. Babe Didrickson Zaharias
    3. Michael Jordan (athletic ability is only part of my criteria, Jordan's mental strength is akin to Tiger Wood's imo)

    You didn't specify gender so the BDZ HAS to be a part of the list
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    mr3holesinonemr3holesinone Posts: 444
    Jim Brown my pick for best ever, that was the easy one.
    Jim Thorpe probably second.
    The two Babes tied for third: Babe Ruth & Babe Didrickson Zaharias.


    My darkhorse best athlete of all-time would be Bruce Li. If you ever get a chance to see a movie they show on AMC, it is a movie they found that he was working on at the time of his death... The movie is called The Game of Death. Awesome Bruce Li fights involving bamboo pole fights, numchakus and a fight against none other that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Jabbar knows karate/gung fu a lot more than I ever knew--he was a student of Bruce Li's.



    These three are all favorites of mine but I'd never consider them for all time best athlete:
    Michael Jordan couldn't get out of A or AA ball...baseball is a much harder sport to play.
    Ali was the greatest but only in boxing...which is a helluva sport to be the master of.
    Gretzky's the best hockey player ever but not athlete.

    Wilt Chamberlin was an awesome athlete, I'd rate him above the previous three with Ali closest to him. Wilt's prowess with the ladies is a record I'm in awe of.



    Deion Sanders? Bo Jackson was much better for his short career.
    Decathletes, such as Bruce Jenner or Jackie Joyner-Kersee are probably much higher on this theoretical list than we are giving them credit for.
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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 22,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think Wilt can be compared to M. Jordan... it was a different era in Basketball and both of these guys are great athletes.

    The better approach is to go by Sport and by decade and choose 5-10 per sport for the decade. After all, I recall that Arnold Palmer was named the athlete of the 1960's but no one has made reference to him or any golfer for that matter... what about Sam Snead?

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    onlychildonlychild Posts: 312 ✭
    Bruce Jenner - Not just 2 sports but 10!
    Hercules
    The Goat - for those who know
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    WondoWondo Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Bruce Jenner - Not just 2 sports but 10!
    Hercules
    The Goat - for those who know >>




    Didn't the Goat die a year or two ago. What was the name of the movie about him?
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    mintlustermintluster Posts: 926
    Michael Jordan
    Babe Ruth
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    onlychildonlychild Posts: 312 ✭


    << <i>What was the name of the movie about him? >>



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