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Posted on 5/24/14 at 10:29 pm to Circle K Beggar
Danny Ainge / thread
Posted on 5/24/14 at 10:31 pm to FightinTigersDammit
quote:made it because of what he meant to the game, not his stats. He hit .310 with about 150 HRs & 1500 hits. Not HOF stats by any stretch. And I believe he was fantastic
Jackie Robinson. All-conference in four sports, made the Hall of Fame in his fourth-best sport.
Posted on 5/24/14 at 10:42 pm to Schmelly
He wasn't allowed to play in MLB until he was 28, missed about 5 good prime seasons in there...just sayin
Posted on 5/24/14 at 10:45 pm to LL012697
Good point, but still doesn't get him best athlete points
Posted on 5/24/14 at 10:47 pm to Schmelly
No I know, I diverted from the OP, was just speaking from a baseball HOF standpoint
Posted on 5/24/14 at 10:49 pm to Schmelly
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made it because of what he meant to the game, not his stats. He hit .310 with about 150 HRs & 1500 hits. Not HOF stats by any stretch. And I believe he was fantastic
Nice job of totally missing my point.
Posted on 5/24/14 at 10:58 pm to FightinTigersDammit
I dont think you can ever call someone the most athletic person ever. There have been so many insanely talented athletic individuals to walk on this earth. This question is truly impossible to answer imo.
Posted on 5/25/14 at 1:02 am to Circle K Beggar
Misread as Charlie Weis 
Posted on 5/25/14 at 1:21 am to forksup
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Misread as Charlie Weis
Did you also misread as "unathletic" ?
Posted on 5/25/14 at 6:09 am to lsu480
The world is 2/3 water... I see a long list of people who wouldn't make it a mile back to shore if they were dropped only a mile out.
Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:38 am to ehole
Jordan Jefferson
Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:44 am to Schmelly
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Lol @ lesnar & Bo Jackson being mentioned in the same breath. Yeah, lesnar is a freak, a good athlete & a steroid monger who tried out for the Vikings, got cut, then had moderate success in the most un-athletic division in mma
well lesner did test out really well in physical testing when he tried out for the vikings...and his times are more verified than jackson's mythological times
Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:45 am to Buck Dancer
Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:53 am to LSU82BILL
Bruce Jenner ftw
Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:58 am to QJenk
quote:
I dont think you can ever call someone the most athletic person ever. There have been so many insanely talented athletic individuals to walk on this earth. This question is truly impossible to answer imo.
Agreed. I thought about it last night and you start thinking about guys like Lebron and MJ. They had/have what I'd think the most important components of being a great athlete are, the size, speed, quickness, strength, explosiveness and the hand/eye coordination. But there are a lot of guys that belong in the conversation.
We had this discussion a year or so ago, and it seemed like a lot of people were leaning towards basketball players. In my mind if you can absolutely dominate in the NBA and then still be capable of competing in another sport, that's pretty special. But I also love a guy than can compete at a high level in the NFL and still be able to hit a home run on a major league pitcher
Posted on 5/25/14 at 10:18 am to LL012697
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He wasn't allowed to play in MLB until he was 28, missed about 5 good prime seasons in there...just sayi
One of the two biggest myths about Jackie Robinson, is that the color barrier cost him 5 seasons, the other being he faced racism when he played games in the south.
He broke the color barrier in 1947.
Transfered to UCLA in 1939, left school in the fall of 1941. Due to the racial ban he decided to play football, that was the same month as the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was drafted in '42. He never would have played a game in the big leagues, it wouldn't have even been like Warren Spahn.
Served in the army until he was court-martialed in 1944, was discharged at after the '44 season. 1945 played in the Negro leagues, by '46 he was in the Dodger organization (Montreal). I think it cost him a year at most.
Obviously he was ready when he was called up he won ROY, and he did miss 5 years (so did Williams, Feller, Spahn, Mays, Musial..) The racial ban cost Satchel Paige, he didn't hit the big leagues until, the age of 41. He started 7 games his first year, went 6 & 1 with 2 shutouts, 2.48 era.
Posted on 5/25/14 at 10:39 am to lsu480
that's why I was confused reading the thread title. "What the hell...? OP on crack?"Posted on 5/25/14 at 11:03 am to TigerintheNO
quote:
Mays
Broke into the majors in 1951.
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