major sports started interleague play
when that novelty wore off
they tried inter sports play they can
beat you on the court the field or
anywhere else
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
athletes who played more than one sport
named Dietrich since valiant fight
against the dread disease invoke the
silent prayers of the nation despite her
suffering she went on to win the 1954
women’s US Open but that was the kind of
a gala babe Didrikson was for this list
we’ve chosen professional athletes
who’ve attained some level of success in
multiple sports therefore high school
lower minor leagues and/or tryouts are
not accepted we’re also not qualifying
professional wrestling as a sport as
it’s more scripted entertainment unless
we’re talking olympic-style wrestling
huh
kakaw hello hey it’s nothing he says he
knows you
and finally boxers who became mixed
martial artists or vice-versa are not
eligible 134 for the champion
number 10 Michael Jordan Jordan 63
points and you’re looking at all-time
record in 1993 Michael Jordan retired
from the NBA to pursue a baseball career
he credited his murdered father with
inspiring the decision as his dream was
for Michael to play pro ball he advised
me quite frankly to retire to my first
championship but we had minute
discussions and my discussions was that
I still had a lot to prove at the player
however some theorized that gambling
troubles forced the league to expel
Jordan and the baseball alibi was a
cover-up
whatever the reason Michael was signed
by the MLB’s Chicago White Sox and
played for their double-a affiliate the
Birmingham Barons just being given the
opportunity something I can feel very
privileged about I mean the white sauce
gave me an opportunity just to go out
there and see what type of skills I have
and if I ever developed the skills to be
up here then great if I don’t you know
at least I fulfill the dream at least
trying in one season with Birmingham
Jordan hit three home runs and had a 202
batting average he also played in the
Arizona Fall League for the Scottsdale
scorpions and batted a respectable 252
unable to crack the big leagues Michael
returned to basketball in 1995 and added
more accolades to arguably the greatest
NBA career of all time Jordan is two for
two to start this game remember he’s
coming off the game-winning shot and 32
points against Atlanta on Saturday night
number 9 babe Didrikson Zaharias they’ve
dietrichson participated in excelled in
any sport lacrosse Turpan selected by
Guinness World Records as one of the
most versatile female athletes of all
time babe Didrikson excelled at several
sports during her professional career
beginning as a track star she competed
in three events at the 1932 Olympics
winning gold in javelin and the 80 meter
hurdles and silver in high jump with a
judging decision costing her the gold
plus both her high jump and hurdle
scores tied world records at the time
after track she took up pro basketball
and toured America with a team called
Babe dietrichson’s all-americans she
wanted that publish
and she’s right to the the newspaper
back in her hometown and tell him what
she did in basketball and she was her
own best promoter it’s golf however for
which she’s best known babe
141 pro tours and ten majors before her
untimely death at age 45
she still places fourth for the most
major wins in LPGA history tied with
Annika Sorenstam here she is winning by
a mile a margin of 12 strokes with a
score of 291 one of the most inspiring
comebacks in all sports history
number 8 Charlie Ward being a
quarterback and a port guard a very
similar you’re running a team you have
to be able to distribute know when to
distribute and also you know you have to
be the coach on the field Charlie Ward
was a standout quarterback for Florida
State University earning the Heisman
Trophy in 1993 for college football
player of the year he also played
basketball at FSU though his skills on
the gridiron overshadowed those on the
hardwood FSU rolled over its conference
competition by an average of forty two
point five point incredibly when the
1994 draft year rolled around the NFL
was seemingly the only league not to
pick Ward instead he was taken in the
first round in the NBA Draft by the New
York Knicks and in the 18th round of the
MLB Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers
despite the fact that he didn’t even
play college baseball because of this
snub whore chose the NBA where he played
12 seasons as a point guard
DJ Brown throws Charlie Ward watch out
this one’s going to get really ugly he
remains the only Heisman Trophy winner
to play professional basketball at any
point now in your life do you look at
football and say man I wish I would have
been on a pistol offense in this day and
age Oh No number seven
Herschel Walker have you ever done
anything that you didn’t want to win
oh no I want to win it everything people
don’t realize I love winning Herschel
Walker’s legacy as a football player is
well established
he’s a Heisman Trophy winner two-time
NFL Pro Bowler and a member of the
College Football Hall of Fame what may
be less established however are his
forays into other sports most notably
bobsledding and offer azulon I didn’t
think about Elliot I really thought
about making a team and after I made a
team that’s when I say you know I’m
going to go to the lymph and I’m not
going to waste my time since making the
team Walker competed in the 1992 Winter
Olympics in the two-man bobsled event
finishing seventh he also took the
plunge into mixed martial arts at age 47
competing in two professional fights and
winning them both this corner man
grabbed the mouthpiece
every step
we’d be hard-pressed to find an athlete
with a more varied athletic career than
Herschel Walker even oh I know I never
have watched football I didn’t grow up
watching football and I I learned
football from a book number six Lionel
Conacher Lionel big train Conacher a man
who makes every other athlete feel like
a chronic underachiever Lionel Conacher
is Canada’s Jim Thorpe known for most as
a hockey player
Honaker was a perennial all-star and
two-time Stanley Cup winner considered
one of the best players of his era along
with the NHL he played in the Canadian
Football League and won a Grey Cup in
1921 he played baseball with the Toronto
Maple Leafs not to be confused with the
hockey team and won the 1926
international league championship and he
won titles in boxing lacrosse and
wrestling he’s a member of the Hockey
Hall of Fame
the Canadian lacrosse Hall of Fame the
Canadian Football Hall of Fame and
Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and
appropriately the Lionel Conacher award
is given to Canada’s top male athlete
each year sure his brother Charlie one
scoring championships even the Stanley
Cup big deal Lionel one to number five
Jackie Robinson okay if they like me
and then come here to make friends
I don’t even care if they respect me I
Know Who I am
baseball wasn’t the only color barrier
Jackie could have broken Jackie Robinson
was an all-around athlete who succeeded
in every sport he played while at UCLA
he became the first person in the
school’s history to earn varsity letters
in four different sports football
baseball basketball and track and field
he won the 1940 NCAA track and field
championship in long jump and was one of
the few black players on the UCLA Bruins
football team in fact it’s been said
that baseball was his worst sport at
that time after college he played
football for the semi-pro Honolulu bears
and attempted to enter the Pacific Coast
football league the world war two Draft
derailed his football career however and
he switched to baseball upon returning
from duty the rest is history I’m not
going anywhere
all right I’m right here number four Jim
Brown this is Jim Brown the most
devastating ball carrier in the history
of football
Jim Brown has been hailed as the
greatest football player of all time as
a fullback for the Cleveland Browns he
earned a multitude of postseason
accolades including eight all-pro
selections and four MVP awards when he
retired from the NFL after only nine
seasons every major rushing record was
his and he was soon granted entry into
the Football Hall of Fame this isn’t the
only Hall of Fame Brown was inducted
into however the LaCrosse Hall of Fame
also bears his name for his sensational
college career which saw him receive
first and second team all-american
status as a nationally ranked lacrosse
player along with football and lacrosse
Brown played basketball and ran track at
Syracuse earning achievements in both
this is right before the game mr. Jim
Brown and you can take that for granted
that is two of the best athletes that
we’ve ever seen all-time number three
Deion Sanders Deion Sanders in the 24
twists his way
you know it’s just the pretty low
Florida State Deion Sanders as a
multi-sport superstar in college
Sanders turned pro in two different
leagues playing in the NFL from 1989 to
2005 and the MLB from 1989 to 2001 as a
football player Sanders had eight
all-pro selections won two Super Bowls
and was inducted into the Pro Football
Hall of Fame as a baseball player he was
a serviceable Fielder who won a triples
title and played in the 1992 World
Series
this makes Sanders the only person to
play in both a Super Bowl and a World
Series Sanders is also unique for
playing in two major sports leagues at
the same time a feat that few other
athletes can claim although famous I am
so privileged and so thankful to be
amongst you
number two Bo Jackson yes here’s a throw
guy a go Jackson well Jackson played in
both the NFL and the MLB and was the
first person to be named an all-star in
both sports bo was originally drafted in
1982 by the Yankees but chose a football
scholarship instead after winning the
Heisman Trophy in 1985 bo was the first
overall pick in the 1986 NFL Draft and a
fourth round pick in the MLB Draft by
the Royals he decided on pro baseball
originally due to Kansas City’s recent
World Series win but he eventually
joined the NFL’s Los Angeles Raiders in
1987 that’s pretty amazing right there
he was playing football as an offseason
hobby bo played four seasons in the NFL
with a Pro Bowl appearance in 1990 and
eight in the MLB hitting 141 home runs
and earning a place in the 1989 MLB
all-star game bo knows sports on stop
unstoppable you cannot stop Bojack see
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions Bob
Hayes is a football player who just
happens to be the world’s fastest living
human we played UCLA in the coast
playoffs against Johnny woods team
Johnny Wooden was only a second-year man
there then and we would have beat him
they beat us down there by 1 1 1 basket
by some guy that had real thick glasses
and threw one in about half court ironic
goes on the 3-2 pitch and here’s a drive
to left Ricky Henderson back all the way
to the fence it’s carrying and it’s gone
here’s Evers back looking away
live in the front
by clinical Garre number one Jim Thorpe
he’s kind of a half a modern sports
figure and half a kind of Paul Bunyan
American mythic figure Jim Thorpe was a
Native American athlete who along with
being a racial pioneer is considered to
be arguably the most versatile sportsman
of all time Thorpe won Olympic gold in
1912 for the pentathlon and decathlon
the best gauges for multi-sport
supremacy Thorpe also played
professional football baseball and
basketball he was an all-american
football player in college a first-team
all-pro NFL player a sixth season MLB
outfielder and pinch-hitter and led a
pro basketball team that toured various
parts of America not only is Thorpe the
most versatile athlete he’s often been
selected among the greatest athletes of
the 20th century acclaim by the American
press is the greatest athlete in the
past half-century Jim thought do you
agree with our list who’s your favorite
multi-sport athlete from Lenin for more
versatile top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com hey
is that a homerun yeah if you played an
elevator shaft
Oh
when that novelty wore off
they tried inter sports play they can
beat you on the court the field or
anywhere else
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
athletes who played more than one sport
named Dietrich since valiant fight
against the dread disease invoke the
silent prayers of the nation despite her
suffering she went on to win the 1954
women’s US Open but that was the kind of
a gala babe Didrikson was for this list
we’ve chosen professional athletes
who’ve attained some level of success in
multiple sports therefore high school
lower minor leagues and/or tryouts are
not accepted we’re also not qualifying
professional wrestling as a sport as
it’s more scripted entertainment unless
we’re talking olympic-style wrestling
huh
kakaw hello hey it’s nothing he says he
knows you
and finally boxers who became mixed
martial artists or vice-versa are not
eligible 134 for the champion
number 10 Michael Jordan Jordan 63
points and you’re looking at all-time
record in 1993 Michael Jordan retired
from the NBA to pursue a baseball career
he credited his murdered father with
inspiring the decision as his dream was
for Michael to play pro ball he advised
me quite frankly to retire to my first
championship but we had minute
discussions and my discussions was that
I still had a lot to prove at the player
however some theorized that gambling
troubles forced the league to expel
Jordan and the baseball alibi was a
cover-up
whatever the reason Michael was signed
by the MLB’s Chicago White Sox and
played for their double-a affiliate the
Birmingham Barons just being given the
opportunity something I can feel very
privileged about I mean the white sauce
gave me an opportunity just to go out
there and see what type of skills I have
and if I ever developed the skills to be
up here then great if I don’t you know
at least I fulfill the dream at least
trying in one season with Birmingham
Jordan hit three home runs and had a 202
batting average he also played in the
Arizona Fall League for the Scottsdale
scorpions and batted a respectable 252
unable to crack the big leagues Michael
returned to basketball in 1995 and added
more accolades to arguably the greatest
NBA career of all time Jordan is two for
two to start this game remember he’s
coming off the game-winning shot and 32
points against Atlanta on Saturday night
number 9 babe Didrikson Zaharias they’ve
dietrichson participated in excelled in
any sport lacrosse Turpan selected by
Guinness World Records as one of the
most versatile female athletes of all
time babe Didrikson excelled at several
sports during her professional career
beginning as a track star she competed
in three events at the 1932 Olympics
winning gold in javelin and the 80 meter
hurdles and silver in high jump with a
judging decision costing her the gold
plus both her high jump and hurdle
scores tied world records at the time
after track she took up pro basketball
and toured America with a team called
Babe dietrichson’s all-americans she
wanted that publish
and she’s right to the the newspaper
back in her hometown and tell him what
she did in basketball and she was her
own best promoter it’s golf however for
which she’s best known babe
141 pro tours and ten majors before her
untimely death at age 45
she still places fourth for the most
major wins in LPGA history tied with
Annika Sorenstam here she is winning by
a mile a margin of 12 strokes with a
score of 291 one of the most inspiring
comebacks in all sports history
number 8 Charlie Ward being a
quarterback and a port guard a very
similar you’re running a team you have
to be able to distribute know when to
distribute and also you know you have to
be the coach on the field Charlie Ward
was a standout quarterback for Florida
State University earning the Heisman
Trophy in 1993 for college football
player of the year he also played
basketball at FSU though his skills on
the gridiron overshadowed those on the
hardwood FSU rolled over its conference
competition by an average of forty two
point five point incredibly when the
1994 draft year rolled around the NFL
was seemingly the only league not to
pick Ward instead he was taken in the
first round in the NBA Draft by the New
York Knicks and in the 18th round of the
MLB Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers
despite the fact that he didn’t even
play college baseball because of this
snub whore chose the NBA where he played
12 seasons as a point guard
DJ Brown throws Charlie Ward watch out
this one’s going to get really ugly he
remains the only Heisman Trophy winner
to play professional basketball at any
point now in your life do you look at
football and say man I wish I would have
been on a pistol offense in this day and
age Oh No number seven
Herschel Walker have you ever done
anything that you didn’t want to win
oh no I want to win it everything people
don’t realize I love winning Herschel
Walker’s legacy as a football player is
well established
he’s a Heisman Trophy winner two-time
NFL Pro Bowler and a member of the
College Football Hall of Fame what may
be less established however are his
forays into other sports most notably
bobsledding and offer azulon I didn’t
think about Elliot I really thought
about making a team and after I made a
team that’s when I say you know I’m
going to go to the lymph and I’m not
going to waste my time since making the
team Walker competed in the 1992 Winter
Olympics in the two-man bobsled event
finishing seventh he also took the
plunge into mixed martial arts at age 47
competing in two professional fights and
winning them both this corner man
grabbed the mouthpiece
every step
we’d be hard-pressed to find an athlete
with a more varied athletic career than
Herschel Walker even oh I know I never
have watched football I didn’t grow up
watching football and I I learned
football from a book number six Lionel
Conacher Lionel big train Conacher a man
who makes every other athlete feel like
a chronic underachiever Lionel Conacher
is Canada’s Jim Thorpe known for most as
a hockey player
Honaker was a perennial all-star and
two-time Stanley Cup winner considered
one of the best players of his era along
with the NHL he played in the Canadian
Football League and won a Grey Cup in
1921 he played baseball with the Toronto
Maple Leafs not to be confused with the
hockey team and won the 1926
international league championship and he
won titles in boxing lacrosse and
wrestling he’s a member of the Hockey
Hall of Fame
the Canadian lacrosse Hall of Fame the
Canadian Football Hall of Fame and
Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and
appropriately the Lionel Conacher award
is given to Canada’s top male athlete
each year sure his brother Charlie one
scoring championships even the Stanley
Cup big deal Lionel one to number five
Jackie Robinson okay if they like me
and then come here to make friends
I don’t even care if they respect me I
Know Who I am
baseball wasn’t the only color barrier
Jackie could have broken Jackie Robinson
was an all-around athlete who succeeded
in every sport he played while at UCLA
he became the first person in the
school’s history to earn varsity letters
in four different sports football
baseball basketball and track and field
he won the 1940 NCAA track and field
championship in long jump and was one of
the few black players on the UCLA Bruins
football team in fact it’s been said
that baseball was his worst sport at
that time after college he played
football for the semi-pro Honolulu bears
and attempted to enter the Pacific Coast
football league the world war two Draft
derailed his football career however and
he switched to baseball upon returning
from duty the rest is history I’m not
going anywhere
all right I’m right here number four Jim
Brown this is Jim Brown the most
devastating ball carrier in the history
of football
Jim Brown has been hailed as the
greatest football player of all time as
a fullback for the Cleveland Browns he
earned a multitude of postseason
accolades including eight all-pro
selections and four MVP awards when he
retired from the NFL after only nine
seasons every major rushing record was
his and he was soon granted entry into
the Football Hall of Fame this isn’t the
only Hall of Fame Brown was inducted
into however the LaCrosse Hall of Fame
also bears his name for his sensational
college career which saw him receive
first and second team all-american
status as a nationally ranked lacrosse
player along with football and lacrosse
Brown played basketball and ran track at
Syracuse earning achievements in both
this is right before the game mr. Jim
Brown and you can take that for granted
that is two of the best athletes that
we’ve ever seen all-time number three
Deion Sanders Deion Sanders in the 24
twists his way
you know it’s just the pretty low
Florida State Deion Sanders as a
multi-sport superstar in college
Sanders turned pro in two different
leagues playing in the NFL from 1989 to
2005 and the MLB from 1989 to 2001 as a
football player Sanders had eight
all-pro selections won two Super Bowls
and was inducted into the Pro Football
Hall of Fame as a baseball player he was
a serviceable Fielder who won a triples
title and played in the 1992 World
Series
this makes Sanders the only person to
play in both a Super Bowl and a World
Series Sanders is also unique for
playing in two major sports leagues at
the same time a feat that few other
athletes can claim although famous I am
so privileged and so thankful to be
amongst you
number two Bo Jackson yes here’s a throw
guy a go Jackson well Jackson played in
both the NFL and the MLB and was the
first person to be named an all-star in
both sports bo was originally drafted in
1982 by the Yankees but chose a football
scholarship instead after winning the
Heisman Trophy in 1985 bo was the first
overall pick in the 1986 NFL Draft and a
fourth round pick in the MLB Draft by
the Royals he decided on pro baseball
originally due to Kansas City’s recent
World Series win but he eventually
joined the NFL’s Los Angeles Raiders in
1987 that’s pretty amazing right there
he was playing football as an offseason
hobby bo played four seasons in the NFL
with a Pro Bowl appearance in 1990 and
eight in the MLB hitting 141 home runs
and earning a place in the 1989 MLB
all-star game bo knows sports on stop
unstoppable you cannot stop Bojack see
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions Bob
Hayes is a football player who just
happens to be the world’s fastest living
human we played UCLA in the coast
playoffs against Johnny woods team
Johnny Wooden was only a second-year man
there then and we would have beat him
they beat us down there by 1 1 1 basket
by some guy that had real thick glasses
and threw one in about half court ironic
goes on the 3-2 pitch and here’s a drive
to left Ricky Henderson back all the way
to the fence it’s carrying and it’s gone
here’s Evers back looking away
live in the front
by clinical Garre number one Jim Thorpe
he’s kind of a half a modern sports
figure and half a kind of Paul Bunyan
American mythic figure Jim Thorpe was a
Native American athlete who along with
being a racial pioneer is considered to
be arguably the most versatile sportsman
of all time Thorpe won Olympic gold in
1912 for the pentathlon and decathlon
the best gauges for multi-sport
supremacy Thorpe also played
professional football baseball and
basketball he was an all-american
football player in college a first-team
all-pro NFL player a sixth season MLB
outfielder and pinch-hitter and led a
pro basketball team that toured various
parts of America not only is Thorpe the
most versatile athlete he’s often been
selected among the greatest athletes of
the 20th century acclaim by the American
press is the greatest athlete in the
past half-century Jim thought do you
agree with our list who’s your favorite
multi-sport athlete from Lenin for more
versatile top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com hey
is that a homerun yeah if you played an
elevator shaft
Oh
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