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If you could go back in time

zendudezendude Posts: 208 ✭✭
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What player from any sport would you most like to have watched in person?

This is the ultimate no-brainer for me. It's got to be Babe Ruth.

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  • HallcoHallco Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool thread! I would have to break it down by sport. Here is the list for me:

    Baseball-Ty Cobb
    Football-Jim Brown
    Basketball-Oscar Robertson
    Hockey-Gordie Howe
    Boxing-Sugar Ray Robinson
    Horse Racing-Man o' War

  • hhmag70hhmag70 Posts: 2,107
    Jim Thorpe
  • MJB14MJB14 Posts: 39 ✭✭
    I'd have to go with the greatest athlete of all, Jim Thorpe
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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,034 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Baseball - Ty Cobb - any game
    Football - Steve Van Buren - any game
    Basketball - Wilt's 100 point game
    Olympics - Jim Thorpe

  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    Spartacus? way back in time!

    i would have like to have seen Jm Thorpe at the Olympics, Don Larsen's WS PG and Wilt's 100 pt game, Mays in '54 series game 1

    tough to pick just one
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭
    Well, I'll pick Ruth in 27...which of course means I get to see Gehrig as well image
  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    I'd like to see Satchel Paige in his prime. From what I've heard, the stats don't tell the story. Maybe a barnstorming game with him pitching against Bob Feller.
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  • DialjDialj Posts: 1,636 ✭✭
    3 June 1932, Lou Gehrig hits 4 home runs in a single game.
    "A full mind is an empty bat." Ty Cobb

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  • ernie11ernie11 Posts: 1,946 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Babe Ruth is my pick, but you know, I'd almost ditch that opportunity to have seen Mantles' 565-foot homer.
  • illinifan912illinifan912 Posts: 1,462 ✭
    josh gibson,jim thorpe, every hockey game from 1971-82 because of the sweet hockey masks
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Baseball- Willy Mays
    Football- Sammy Baugh
  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    I would like to name two choices.

    I would like to have seen Bobby Jones play golf.

    I would like to have seen Gene Sarazen's Double Eagle on the 15th hole in the 1935 Masters.
    The shot heard round the world.

    Ron
    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
  • KalineFanKalineFan Posts: 868
    Lincoln's Gettysburg address......

    whoops, I'm sorry, did I spoil the sports theme?

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    Actually, I too would have wanted to see THE BABE play in 1927.

    Tony
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  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Babe Ruth, Bobby Orr, Oscar Robertson, Gayle Sayers, Muhammad Ali, Arnold Palmer.

    If I have to pick one it's Bobby Orr.

    Joe

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  • kingnascarkingnascar Posts: 636 ✭✭✭
    Racing - Fireball Roberts
    Baseball - Babe Ruth

    Logan

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