Of the 4 major sports who is the best ever...

[cadillacman]

nba

Wilt Chamberlain

bases

Wille Mays

football

Barry Sanders

nhl

mario lemieux

 

[Journeyman]

Speaking of the great Pele, perhaps Soccer's greatest magician with the ball was Stan Stamenkovic, if you never saw this man with a soccer ball you missed out....Stamenkovic and his unique dribbling ability defied description, you had to see him to believe him...He passed away shortly after his career ended....

Stan was a chubby , slow player with bad knees by the time he became well known in the USA indoor game but he still was an incredible player...It was comical to watch him perform his trickery with a soccer ball...

 

[dmmd98]

Pele was unreal back in the day, the guy scored 1000 goals in soccer for crying out loud. What doesn't shock me about your story however is the guy trying to rob Pele's limo driver.

 

[blueedwards]

I dont think anyone can ever dominate the way RUTH did in comparison to the rest of his league and teams. Has anyone come close?

Maybe wilt for 2 or 3 good years but there wre others up there russell, and oscar.

bonds is close.

 

[THEPOSTMAN!]

Greatest:
NBA - Michael Jordan
NFL - Barry Sanders
MLB - Barry Bonds

Favorite:

NBA - Dr. J
NFL - O J Simpson
MLB - Vlad Guerrerro

 

[BlackampGold]

NHL - Mario Lemieux

MLB - Babe Ruth

NBA - Michael Jordan

NFL - Jerry Rice

 

[wilheim]

For a couple of years in the early 70's no one ever dominated a sport like Bobby Orr. As a defenseman he does not have statistics like Wayne Gretsky but on the ice there has never been anyone better than the Orr was during that period in sports history including George Mikan.



wil.

 

[Piranha]

So far the consensus are;

NBA..........Michael Jordan

NHL..........Wayne Gretzky/Mario Lemieux

NFL..........Jerry Rice/Barry Sanders

MLB..........Babe Ruth/Barry Bonds

 

[winkyduck]

agree with piranha on most of the best ever - except the NBA

Greatest:

NBA.....Wilt Chamberlain
NHL.....Wayne Gretzky
NFL.....Jim Brown
MLB.....Babe Ruth

Very interested on your picks for your favorite player.......doesn't matter what position.

Favorite:
NBA......Cedric Ceballos
NHL......Pat LaFontaine
NFL......Mark Collins
MLB......Tim Wallach

and for all but the NHL - they all have something in common that should take about 0.3 seconds to figure out!

 

[Fishhead]

Jim Brown--lacrosse

 

[Brock Landers]

MLB

Ty Cobb

NFL

Dick Butkus

NBA

Jordan is lght years ahead

NHL

Who cares (but Gretzky is the only choice)