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re: Least Naturally Athletic Person to Have the Best Career in Sports
Posted on 8/5/10 at 12:16 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 8/5/10 at 12:16 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:you'd be wrong
randy johnson is one of the best SP ever, and i doubt he could dunk a basketball at 6-10
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Posted on 8/5/10 at 12:18 pm to truthbetold
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Least Naturally Athletic Person to Have the Best Career in Sports
I don't think the question is realistic. You don't make it as a professional in any of the major sports unless you are a world class athlete.
Posted on 8/5/10 at 12:20 pm to TigerTig
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Least Naturally Athletic Person to Have the Best Career in Sports
babe ruth
I think its incredible that anyone would think that Ruth was not athletic.
He was the greatest home run hitter of his era (and maybe any era) with the Yankees (when he hit his 600th home run the second player on the list had ~350), and Ruth had a career batting average of .342, the 9th highest average of all time.
And before he was an all-time great hitter for the Yankees, he was an all-star pitcher with the Bosox. He pitched 29 2/3 straight scoreless innings in the world series, which broke Christy Mathewson's record, and stood until Whitey Ford broke it in 1961.
The only way anyone would say Ruth was not athletic is to focus only on his un-athletic silhouette, and ignore his extraordinary athletic accomplishments.
Posted on 8/5/10 at 12:26 pm to Bullethead88
Da Fridge
Posted on 8/5/10 at 12:45 pm to truthbetold
wayne gretzky -- the larry bird of the nhl.
Posted on 8/5/10 at 12:50 pm to truthbetold
David Wells
Kyle Korver
Kyle Korver
Posted on 8/5/10 at 12:53 pm to rondo
roger clemens, nolan ryan, hell any great pitcher
Posted on 8/5/10 at 12:54 pm to truthbetold
Lance Armstrong
Posted on 8/5/10 at 1:00 pm to rondo
Tony Gwynn
Posted on 8/5/10 at 1:23 pm to Bullethead88
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Lance Armstrong
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Triathlete phenom when he was a teenager.
Posted on 8/5/10 at 1:24 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
better question...
why the frick do people feel the need to post someone in this thread without knowing anything about them?
if you play major league baseball and got drafted to the nba or also played college basketball, you are not the fricking answer to this question.
waiting for someone to guess tom glavine
why the frick do people feel the need to post someone in this thread without knowing anything about them?
if you play major league baseball and got drafted to the nba or also played college basketball, you are not the fricking answer to this question.
waiting for someone to guess tom glavine
Posted on 8/5/10 at 1:25 pm to truthbetold
David Eckstein. Dude is an inspiration.
Posted on 8/5/10 at 1:27 pm to SlowFlowPro
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randy johnson is one of the best SP ever, and i doubt he could dunk a basketball at 6-10
Had a college scholarship to play basketball. So...................Fail.
Posted on 8/5/10 at 1:44 pm to barry
Jason White
Posted on 8/5/10 at 1:53 pm to SlowFlowPro
I suppose people are going by traditional athletic measures here, but I don't get the Pete Rose one. He had over 4000 hits and played baseball for over 20 years. You have to be somewhat athletic to do that.
Posted on 8/5/10 at 2:01 pm to Bullethead88
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Lance Armstrong
This might be the dumbest answer in this thread so far, so congrats on that.
Posted on 8/5/10 at 2:03 pm to F machine
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e had over 4000 hits and played baseball for over 20 years.
Being injury free, has nothing to do with athletics. Exactly the point on the 4000 hits, everyone who played with him said he worked his arse off and didn't have the most talent on the team in any category, yet he had a HOF career.
Posted on 8/5/10 at 2:08 pm to barry
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Being injury free, has nothing to do with athletics. Exactly the point on the 4000 hits, everyone who played with him said he worked his arse off and didn't have the most talent on the team in any category, yet he had a HOF career.
well, I mean, being injury free could have something to do with athletics. If your body is more durable, some would consider that athletic. Also, I don't care how hard you work, if you don't have some god given ability, you couldn't do what he did. If working hard was the only thing you had to do to have a hof career, I'd be working my arse off right now playing in the nfl or mlb
Posted on 8/5/10 at 2:11 pm to truthbetold
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This post was edited on 8/28/11 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 8/5/10 at 2:12 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
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if you play major league baseball and got drafted to the nba or also played college basketball, you are not the fricking answer to this question.
The question is LEAST naturally athletic, not ZERO / NO athletic ability. I mean, are you saying that all players that make it to the pros are equally gifted? Surely one great player is LESS naturally gifted than another? Meaning that of all the great players, one can be the LEAST naturally gifted great player, but still more gifted than a non-professional.
I'm thinking it would have to be an interior lineman with a great career, who was really a fat arse that clogged up holes.
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