9 of the Best Ever.... Who Do You Have?

[RCFire82]

Out of the T206 game...just having some fun these days with my collecting. I wanted a single binder page with the best GOATs I could think of.
Curious who others might pick for their top nine? And what cards they'd go with to represent their players...?

[rats60]

I only do baseball, so GOATs by position

[Carter08]

To me the big 4 sports have obvious picks. Hockey-Gretzky, Basketball-Jordan, Football-Brady (dammit), Baseball-Ruth.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Ruth
Brady
Jordan
Gretzky
Messi
Ali
Djokovic
Nicklaus
Carl Lewis
Phelps

[JimC]

Jim Brown is the best football player.

Peter, Novak is awesome but too many of his majors are Australian Opens for me to put him over Federer or Nadal. Or Perhaps even Borg. I think in their primes Federer and Nadal were better. Close call though. McEnroe agrees with you and it's hard to argue against him on this.

Gretzky is The Great One but maybe in hockey the co-goat is Orr.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by JimC

Jim Brown is the best football player.

Peter, Novak is awesome but too many of his majors are Australian Opens for me to put him over Federer or Nadal. Or Perhaps even Borg. I think in their primes Federer and Nadal were better. Close call though. McEnroe agrees with you and it's hard to argue against him on this.

Gretzky is The Great One but maybe in hockey the co-goat is Orr.

Same with Nadal and the French. I would not disagree strongly with Federer.

[ClementeFanOh]

Interesting post, I'm sure it won't end up in (online only!) bloodshed:

1) Hockey- hard to argue the Great One
2) Baseball- hard to argue Babe
3) Soccer- I love me some Leo. There is real room for debate with Pele and
Maradona though.
4) Boxing- real room for debate. Ali is most popular. Joe Louis (look up the
accomplishments, wow). Marciano?
5) Hoops- I'll never go with Jordan, perhaps the most overhyped athlete in
my lifetime. Great player? Yes. Best ever? No.
6) Pro Football- don't care enough to weigh in. Jim Brown??
7) Golf- It's not Tiger. Jack all the way.
8) Tennis- LOTS of room for debate here, not well versed enough to know.

Let the insults begin

Trent King

[bnorth]

Hockey-Patrick Roy
Football- Emmit Smith
Baseball-Ted Williams
Boxing-Marvin Hagler
Tennis-Ivan Lendl
Basketball-Magic
Golf-Tiger Woods
Strongman-Zydrunas Savickas
Powerlifting-Ed Coan

[Peter_Spaeth]

We should not omit women.
Taurasi
S. Williams
Ledecky
Biles
Joyner-Kersee
Hamm

[robw1959]

Originally Posted by rats60

I only do baseball, so GOATs by position

Good picks for baseball. Here are mine . . .