Settle bet - most famous US athlete, all time

[D. Bergin]

Even during Babe Ruth's prime years, Jack Dempsey would have been more famous world-wide than him. Much more!

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Even during Babe Ruth's prime years, Jack Dempsey would have been more famous world-wide than him. Much more!

And he was literally forgotten about by the general public by the 1940s/50s.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Huysmans

And he was literally forgotten about by the general public by the 1940s/50s.

No he wasn't

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

No he wasn't

If you believe he was actually more popular than Ruth during his heyday, then this by far is more believable.

[Beercan collector]

OJ

[bnorth]

I would say Jordan by a mile. Everyone knows who he is. Besides baseball people almost nobody knows who Babe Ruth is. Sure many have heard the name but couldn't give you a singe fact about him beside at one time he played baseball. I owned a commercial greenhouse and set up in 3 different towns every week selling at markets for around 5/6 years. Just wearing a pair of Jordans would get comments. We had a Net54 T-Shirt with Babe Ruth on it. I had exactly one person the entire time mention the shirt that I wore many times.

[jingram058]

It's Babe Ruth. Bet settled, period, end of discussion. Even idiots know about Babe Ruth; anyone, any age.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I think the discussion has revealed the ambiguity of the original question. Perhaps the OP may wish to clarify it.