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    Basketball- jordan
    Hockey- lemieux
    Football- rice
    Baseball- gehrig
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    Cricket-richards

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    Added in soccer and cricket

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    Orr

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    Has to be Gretzky, doesn't it?

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    Ask any Aussie and they'll tell you "The Don" was the greatest Cricket player of all time....Sir Don Bradman

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    think you are missing gretzky....and possibly babe ruth

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirty Sanchez View Post
    Ask any Aussie and they'll tell you "The Don" was the greatest Cricket player of all time....Sir Don Bradman
    Agree

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    Quote Originally Posted by opie1988 View Post
    Has to be Gretzky, doesn't it?
    No opie. This isn't about stats. Lemieux was better than wayne.

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    Listen.


    Gretzky was awesome. He had nowhere near as much talent as Mario. Mario was dominant. If Mario played in Waynes early years with the players wayne played with he might have gotten 240 points.

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    Maurice Richard in hockey- he or Gretzky? Cobb dead ball MLB; DiMaggio or Williams segregated; Aaron post segregation in MLB (can't give it to a first baseman come on); LT in NFL- no debate sorry; Jordan for now, James by the end thou in NBA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinnesotaFats View Post
    Maurice Richard in hockey- he or Gretzky? Cobb dead ball MLB; DiMaggio or Williams segregated; Aaron post segregation in MLB (can't give it to a first baseman come on); LT in NFL- no debate sorry; Jordan for now, James by the end thou in NBA.

    i skipped the whole paragraph until the last sentence. get the fuk outa here

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    James- lmao.

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    Quote Originally Posted by broadway6 View Post
    think you are missing gretzky....and possibly babe ruth
    babe ruth played with no black or international players. mlb was a beer league back then compared to today. no doubt he was good, but he's more about the lore than anything else.

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    Ruth was a fat fukk.

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    Baseball by the numbers is George Herman and its not really close.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boner_18 View Post
    Baseball by the numbers is George Herman and its not really close.
    Yup.

    Ruth- numbers
    Gretzky-numbers
    Wilt-numbers
    Rice-numbers

    Good thing that's all that matters

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    I'm going to stick to the James "by the end of his career" argument. This is a legit debate pal:
    http://www.basesandbaskets.com/2012/...crown-for.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by texhooper View Post
    babe ruth played with no black or international players. mlb was a beer league back then compared to today. no doubt he was good, but he's more about the lore than anything else.
    understood... it's hard to debate players from different decades. You have steroids and short fences this year. The old polo ground's fences went 480ft.
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    Baseball will suprise some, Mariano Rivera..career post season era under 1.00..that is unreal how awesome that is. He also maintained this over a long post season. Hockey Wayne over MArio, 4 cups to 2 cups.

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    Basketball Jabaar has 19 all star games appearances.

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    Cael Sanderson has to be the greatest athlete ever

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    gold medalist

    Can't argue perfection, very rare feat especially considering he had no teammates to pick him up on a off day.

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    one thing about Gretzky, very very unselfish..he would give up an empty net goal and pass it to kurri for a goal. He also played many more games then Mario and almost twixe as many playoff games and maintained 1.8 pts per game in playoffs. Top 3 NHL...Wayne, Mario, Orr.

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    We are talkng the 4 major sports, hockey,baskets,baseball,football

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    I go back and forth between Rice and LT in football. rest of list is correct

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    Basketball- Jordan, Russell, magic and bird then Shaq

    Football- Rice

    Baseball- Ruth, Ted Williams

    Hockey- Gretzky.

    Don't know other sports nor do I care

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    the truth is if barry bonds hadn't of juiced, he probably would have gone down as the greatest. he was already incredible, had he just played out his career like a human i think he would have still been great.

    i'll go with laker on lemieux, easy for us ugly americans to think we know anything about hockey.

    football is tough because the positions are so different, no one really tries to call that, but it's hard to argue against joe montana or jerry rice there. also if you talk to old heads, they'll tell you jim brown was the best they ever saw.

    basketball is obviously jordan.

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    If I was drafting an NFL team and could pick any player from history, my #1 would be a fella by the name of Lawrence Taylor.

    Then I'd hire someone to follow him around and make sure he didn't get his hands on any cocaine.

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    lt was great but he was another byproduct of a great system and great players around him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lakerboy View Post
    lt was great but he was another byproduct of a great system and great players around him.
    Bull. If anyone was a byproduct of being surrounded by great players, it was Rice since he had 2 HOF QB's throwing to him his entire time in SF.

    LT *was* the great player that made everyone else on that team look better than they really were. There was only one other Hall of Fame player on those Giants teams, and that was Harry Carson who took almost 20 years to get inducted (so he wasn't exactly a 1st ballot HOFer).

    Besides, Rice is a known cheater.

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    Baseball- Bonds
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    Baseball- Ruth
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    Soccer- Messi
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    Rugby - Lomu
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    NFL-joe Montana
    Nba- Michael Jordan
    MLB - babe Ruth
    Hockey- Wayne Gretzky
    Soccer-pele

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    Quote Originally Posted by lakerboy View Post
    Ruth was a fat fukk.
    Regardless.
    Check out his pitching numbers, get back to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allang198 View Post
    Baseball- Ruth
    Football - Brady
    Hockey- Gretzky
    Basketball- Jordan
    Soccer- Messi
    Tennis- Federer
    Golf- Woods
    Rugby - Lomu
    Cricket - Tendulkar
    Darts - Taylor
    Boxing - Ali
    I thought you said American sports are for assholes and we are all pussies. Who cares about your opinion JERK OFF! Unless you are jealous and BRADY is not even in the conversation stupid fuk.

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    NBA- basketball not a sport
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