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Who are/were the best Professional Indiana Sports Stars?

llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
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Baseball

Randy Johnson - Indianapolis Indians

Basketball

Reggie Miller - Indiana Pacers

Football

Peyton Manning - Indianapolis Colts

Hockey

Wayne Gretzky - Indianapolis Racers
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  • PLEHRPLEHR Posts: 102 ✭

    IMO, in baseball, Mordecai Brown or Edd Roush trumps Randy Johnson any day.image
  • PLEHRPLEHR Posts: 102 ✭

    Although I now see that you may have meant a player that played for an Indiana team and not just from Indiana.
  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,132 ✭✭✭
    No argument on football but as much as I like Reggie Miller, Mel Daniels won 3 ABA titles for Slick Leonard's Pacers. Daniels averaged 18/15 for his career. He won the Rookie of the Year, 2 ABA MVPs and was on 7 straight All Star teams.
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  • onebamafanonebamafan Posts: 1,318 ✭✭
    Although i dont think they played in Indiana professionally, Larry Bird, Don Mattingly, Bob Griese and i think Gil Hodges were all from Indiana.
  • cwazzycwazzy Posts: 3,257 ✭
    Hank Aaron played for the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro League. And he's better than Randy Johnson. Just sayin'. image
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  • CollectorAtWorkCollectorAtWork Posts: 859 ✭✭✭
    I grew up in Indiana, and I think we still claim Larry Bird.
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  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭
    Gotta go with Larry Bird by a longshot over Reggie Miller
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  • markmacmarkmac Posts: 412 ✭✭✭
    Are you kidding me? Larry Bird is by far the best basketball player from Indiana. It's not even close. I think he is the second greatest ever behind Michael Jordan.
  • johnckhalljohnckhall Posts: 49
    I got to know Bill Hodges, Larry Bird's coach at Indiana State, while I was in college. He coached the men's team at Georgia College and State University - Div II (then Georgia College - NAIA) while I was there. That man coached probably the most important basketball game in NCAA History. Undefeated in 1979 (33-0), before losing to Magic and Michigan State in the finals. I know everone knows that, but OHHHHHHH the stories that man could tell about Bird and how talented he truly was.
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  • ShootyBabittShootyBabitt Posts: 970 ✭
    When did Larry Joe play professional ball in Indiana?
  • kgibsonkgibson Posts: 264 ✭✭✭
    We should include a coach and John Wooden is from Indiana.
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  • ShootyBabittShootyBabitt Posts: 970 ✭
    We should include awesome fictional characters with Indiana in their name. I nominate Indiana Jones.
  • markmacmarkmac Posts: 412 ✭✭✭
    Bird is an Indiana sports star right? I didn't see anywhere that said they had to play for an Indiana team.
  • ShootyBabittShootyBabitt Posts: 970 ✭


    << <i>Bird is an Indiana sports star right? I didn't see anywhere that said they had to play for an Indiana team. >>




    The OP posted the question as: Who are/were the best Professional Indiana Sports Stars? and gave as his answers players for professional Indiana sports teams.
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