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Tim B
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Posted: 02 Nov 2009 18:08 pm

b liber tear en wrote

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Another one nobody mentioned is Tom Glavine. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings, but chose baseball instead. The rest is history.


Title of the thread is college.

Glavine never went to college. He did score 111 goals and had 121 assists in his High School hockey career.


How about jeff samardzija? He was a stellar two sport athlete in college.


I am just glad he sucks now with the Cubs!! Laughing
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Posted: 02 Nov 2009 18:53 pm
How about Julius Peppers - football and basketball at UNC.
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Posted: 02 Nov 2009 19:51 pm

Tim B wrote

b liber tear en wrote

Tim B wrote

b liber tear en wrote

Another one nobody mentioned is Tom Glavine. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings, but chose baseball instead. The rest is history.


Title of the thread is college.

Glavine never went to college. He did score 111 goals and had 121 assists in his High School hockey career.


How about jeff samardzija? He was a stellar two sport athlete in college.


I am just glad he sucks now with the Cubs!! Laughing


Yeah, I wouldnt mind seeing him closing out games for the Flubs next year!
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Posted: 02 Nov 2009 20:36 pm

rob21mck wrote

bigdirty wrote

track and cross country are not sports


What makes you think that they are not sports? Was this suppose to be in blue? I don't care for either sport and I don't have any kids in those sports just wanting to know why you feel the way you do. My feeling if you compete with someone it is a sport.



I play real sports, im not trying to be the best at excercising
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Posted: 02 Nov 2009 22:56 pm
Former NHL Star Eric Lindros was also drafted by the Blue Jays and though he didnt play baseball in college, Pat White, the WV QB from the past few years was drafted by a mlb team, i believe the braves. i think he even spent a summer in their system
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Posted: 03 Nov 2009 01:25 am
Dennis Dixon was the one who played a summer in the Braves' system, but Pat White was also drafted by MLB.

Donovan McNabb played some basketball at Syracuse.
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Posted: 03 Nov 2009 08:54 am

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Surprised nobody has mentioned John Elway. 1st round draft pick in baseball and football!

He was a FANTASTIC pitcher and played 2 summers within the Yankees' organization. The only reason he played football was bc the Colts agreed to trade him to the Broncos. He had a 98MPH fastball.

Dave Winfield (who was already mentioned) was drafted in 3 sports.


Actually John was a .300 hitting outfielder (although he probably could throw a ball 100 MPH) and only used George Steinbrenner as leverage to force the Colts to trade him because he didn't want to play for Frank Kush.
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Posted: 03 Nov 2009 08:56 am

Hack7 wrote

rockoandlouie wrote


Jim Thorpe, American Indian, the most discriminated against and oppressed people in the history of the US. Rolling Eyes

Greatest all round athlete who ever lived and it isn't even close.


papadon2 wrote

Granted, he was a stud, but the competative seasons and conditioning practice was much shorter and different in his day. I was thinking of the modern era athlete



Did you read the whole thing? Didn't think so. He was the greatest athlete of his time maybe. No way he could do that today.


Confused

How do you know?

With modern training and nutritional experts any great athlete of yesteryear would be equally great today.

Thorpe is the greatest all-round athlete ever and it isn't even close.
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Posted: 03 Nov 2009 10:18 am

b liber tear en wrote

Surprised nobody has mentioned John Elway. 1st round draft pick in baseball and football!

He was a FANTASTIC pitcher and played 2 summers within the Yankees' organization. The only reason he played football was bc the Colts agreed to trade him to the Broncos. He had a 98MPH fastball.

Dave Winfield (who was already mentioned) was drafted in 3 sports.


The same year Winfield was drafted in 3 sports, longtime Mets catcher John Stearns was also drafted as a DB by the Bills. He played football and baseball at Colorado; ironically, CU discontinued baseball around 1980.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Buffaloes#Club_Sports
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Posted: 03 Nov 2009 11:52 am
Former St. Louis Cardinal/Dallas Cowboy Jay Novacek - All-American TE in football, All-American decathalete at Wyoming.
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Posted: 03 Nov 2009 12:57 pm
Suprised nobody has mentioned Charlie Ward
-Heisman Trophy winner
-11 year NBA Career
-Drafted by the Brewers (I believe) even though he didn't play Baseball @ FSU
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Posted: 03 Nov 2009 13:17 pm
I really think some of you just don't know enough about Jim Thorpe so here you go:


Did You Know?

• He won the gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon during the 1912 Olympic Games.

• Thorpe’s family buried him in Oklahoma and build a memorial for him there. There, a monument has been erected in his honor with the sentence, “Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world,” etched in the stone.

• The town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania holds an annual birthday celebration for Thorpe every May 21 and 22.

• Believe it or not, Thorpe once hit 3 home runs into 3 different states in the same game. During a semi-pro baseball game in a ballpark on the Texas-Oklahoma-Arkansas border, he hit his first homer over the leftfield wall with the ball landing in Oklahoma, his second homer over the rightfield wall into Arkansas and his third homer of the game was an inside-the-park home run in centerfield, which was in Texas!

• Thorpe is one of two men in history who played for the New York Giants in two different sports. In football, he was the New York Giants' running back and in baseball he was the New York Giants' outfielder.

• Thorpe played football professionally well past his prime, retiring in 1928 at age 41 and is an NFL Hall of Famer.

• Jim Thorpe played major and minor league baseball for 20 years, starting with the New York Giants in 1913 and later playing a number of other teams, including the Boston Braves and the Cincinnati Reds.

• Thorpe was the first president of what is now the National Football League.

• Thorpe was .252 in his six seasons (1913-15, 1917-19) as an outfielder with the Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Boston Braves.

• Thorpe's best baseball season was his last, when he batted .327 in 60 games for Boston.

• At and auction in October 2003, an early 1900s football jersey worn by Jim Thorpe fetched a winning bid of $210,000.

• Thorpe was a twin; his brother Charlie died at age nine.

Track & Field Gold medal winner, MLB baseball player and NFL football player.

Thorpe also carried a 200 average as a bowler and was a noted marksman with both a rifle and a bow an arrow!
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