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Ebbetts Field’s top 20 athletes of the 20th century
This is meant to be an alternative to ESPN's list, which of course was a top 100. I also did not limit myself to just the U.S. So what's the criteria? Champions, highly skilled, far superior to the standard of their day, culturally significant, dynamic. My apologies to Sergei Bubka. -- David Bulla, Ebbetts Field editor
1. Babe Ruth
2. Pele
3. Bill Russell
4. Jack Nicklaus
5. Jim Thorpe
6. Jackie Robinson
7. Jim Brown
8. Abebe Akili
9. Michael Jordan
10. Muhammad Ali
11. Jesse Owens
12. Johnny Unitas
13. Emil Zatopek
14. Karem Abdul-Jabbar
15. Wayne Gretzky
16. Willie Mays
17. Mark Spitz
18. Ty Cobb
19. Carl Lewis
20. Babe Didrickson
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