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Posted By: steve
New Years time, sitting around the TV watching all the bowl games, the discussion moves to these wonderful topics. |
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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Bo Jackson? Are you permanently stuck in 1989? |
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Posted By: Steve F
Cobb |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Dude, Bo Jackson? Are you kidding me? |
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Posted By: howard
Bo Jackson is one of my favorites and may have been the best athlete ever but he was not a huge TD producer in the NFL. There are plenty of backs w/better TD per carry rates than Bo. |
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Posted By: Lance
Steve, |
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Posted By: Rhys
The best Baseball player of all time is Babe Ruth with only perhaps Cobb even being in the discussion. You can make arguments for people like Ted Williams because of his missed years for service and those are valid arguments, but at the end of the day it is going to be Babe Ruth. |
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Posted By: Fred C
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Posted By: peter ullman
does anyone know where/what Bo Jackson is doing these days! Is he a fat...toothless fisherman like the Fridge? |
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Posted By: writehooks
My 2 (Canadian) cents worth from The Great White North: |
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Posted By: Michael Steele
Best Baseball Player = Babe Ruth |
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Posted By: Rob D.
"Best Want List": Goes without saying |
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Posted By: Joann
Best baseball - Ruth. Good arguments for Cobb, but Ruth changed the game. |
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Posted By: Scott T
Baseball...Oscar Charleston |
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Posted By: Jim Thierfelder
I will stick to the original categories listed and offer my 2 cents: |
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Posted By: Jason L
Steve, |
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Posted By: Rhys
One comment on the Gretzky thing. With all due respect, comparing him to any other hockey player is like the Babe Ruth argument. He is so obviously the best hockey player of all time that people sometimes like to go against the masses and look in another direction. Dont get me wrong, I think Bobby Orr revolutionized the way defense is played in the NHL and is the second best player of all time. But to say Orr was better because he made those around him better is ignoring that Gretzky did the same thing, but to higher level, (look at his assist totals) and made his team better by taking a crappy team and winning twice as many Stanley Cups as Orr despite playing in an era with more teams. He held 40 NHL records when he retired. He is pretty much the reason anyone South of Canada cares about Hockey (or at least used to) and is the only athlete besides Jackie Robinson to have his number retired by an entire league. I really like Bobby Orr, but this argument is not even as close as the Cobb Ruth argument. |
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Posted By: steve
Probably the single most stat in ranking a football running back is Yds/carry. |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
But Bo carred the ball about 20 percent as many times as Jim Brown did -- and only had a .2 higher yards per attempt. Let's see how well Bo would have done with all that extra wear and tear on his body. |
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Posted By: Anthony S.
Bo played in 38 games over a 4 year period. That's the equivalent of having played less than 2 and 1/2 full seasons (or slighty more than 3 full season when Brown was playing 12 game seasons). |
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Posted By: steve
I give up - you all win. J. Brown is just the "stock" answer. But thanks for your input and comments. By the way, yes, I did forget about E. Dickerson - top notch runner for sure. |
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Posted By: Michael Steele
Rhys, |
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Posted By: David Goff
These are tough... |
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Posted By: John K
Baseball: Ruth, Ted Williams (2nd) |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Bo jackson... had to check my calendar to see if yesterday was the end of March... |
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Posted By: john/z28jd
I have to disagree with Scott about Bo Jackson being the best tecmo bowl player. On defense Lawrence Taylor was dominating and on offense Cap Boso was absolutely unstoppable,you couldnt get to the QB fast enough to stop the pass to him and even if you called that 10 yard out and across pattern and double covered Boso he always caught the ball. He was an absolute machine at 6"4 232 playing TE....In my opinion the greatest football player ever |
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Posted By: Bob Manning
Guys; |
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Posted By: Stephen Mitchell
1 - Best Baseball player of all time: Babe Ruth |
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Posted By: Donny Muth
Best Baseball Player = Ty Cobb ... Babe Ruth may have changed baseball into a HR hitters' game (which I wish never happened), but Cobb had a greater impact overall in my opinion. |
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Posted By: Alan U
Baseball: Ruth, but Mays and Aaron can be in the discussion |
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Posted By: Al C.risafulli
"Added note, there are only 2 people have entered a professional sport and done things which nobody has seen before, smashed records at an unbelievable level and single handedly changed their game forever" |
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Posted By: PC
I don't think Bo Jackson can be called the best running back ever (he might have been but for his hip injury), but Bo has my vote for best athlete ever. |
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Posted By: Anonymous
Best Baseball: Willie Mays |
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Posted By: D. Bergin
1 - Best Baseball player of all time - Willie Mays though I prefer to rank by eras in baseball. It might be blasphemy but if it weren't for the 'roids his nephew Barry might make this list. |
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