Greatest Athlete to never win a championship?

[DemonDeac22]

here is a link to a list of 75
our own Tina Charles made the list

75 legendary athletes who never won a championship

These athletes are all greats of their respective games, but none of them has a professional championship in their sport.

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The original post said no championships in college and pros - Tina Charles won 2 at UConn and 3 Olympic gold medals.

Let’s narrow this list down to no championships in college, the Olympics and pros.

 

[Scoe]

NHL- Jeremy Roenick, Henrik Lunquist

MLB- Bonds, Trout, Ken Griffey Jr, Tony Gwynn, Ichiro, Roy Halladay

NBA- Barkley, Malone, Stockton, Nash, Ewing, Elgin Baylor

NFL- Marino, Barry Sanders, Tony Gonzalez, Bruce Matthew's, Anthony Munoz, Randy Moss, Junior Seau

Misread the question so scratch Ewing off this list.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Gotta be Bonds. Best baseball player ever

 

[Waquoit]

Ted Williams should be among the top two or three names, not #25.

Best hitter ever. Hit .316 his last year at 41.

 

[Scoe]

I’d add his teammates Thurman Thomas and Andre Reed.

And Bruce Smith and James Lofton

 

[cullaville]

Ernie Banks

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Best hitter ever. Hit .316 his last year at 41.

Many years ago (mid 1970's) I often said that if Williams played on the (then) current astroturf that a lot of ballparks had, he would have batted close to .500 a couple of seasons.

 

[Lynyrd]

George “The Animal“ Steele

 

[CTBasketball]

Terry Caulley.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

At any level, college or pros.

I was reading about how Elgin Baylor had somehow escaped ever winning a championship. He went to the final 4 in college and lost, then lost 8 NBA Finals with the Lakers, they won again the year after he retired.

Dan Marino and Barry Sanders come to mind, any others?

Not sure on this and it’s going back a ways but, gold medals aside, I don’t think Jim Thorpe ever won a championship in football or baseball.

 

[Kitaman]

At any level, college or pros.

I was reading about how Elgin Baylor had somehow escaped ever winning a championship. He went to the final 4 in college and lost, then lost 8 NBA Finals with the Lakers, they won again the year after he retired.

Dan Marino and Barry Sanders come to mind, any others?

Barry Sanders the greatest running back to play the game is the top one for me.

 

[Lafayette]

Barry Sanders the greatest running back to play the game is the top one for me.

This!

 

[Fairfield_1st]

Todd Krygier. I just felt like giving some props to our first hockey great.

 

[dennismenace]

Ernie Banks.

 

[Deepster]

How about the best athlete to never win a single post season game? Mike Trout. Can't believe he's wasted his career with the Angels. At least he's very rich though.

Here's my Trout rant.

15 years in the major leagues. Name one memorable moment. He does not have one. And, for such a good start to his career, he has 100+ RBI one time in the last 8 seasons (104) missing a ton of time with injuries. His stats over the last decade aren't impressive. Is he really that special or generational?

 

[HooperScooper]

Here's my Trout rant.

15 years in the major leagues. Name one memorable moment. He does not have one. And, for such a good start to his career, he has 100+ RBI one time in the last 8 seasons (104) missing a ton of time with injuries. His stats over the last decade aren't impressive. Is he really that special or generational?

I agree with you. But the stat geeks say he has great metrics.

 

[Deepster]

I agree with you. But the stat geeks say he has great metrics.

I also "follow the money" and he has no real sponsorships that I know of or that are nationally recognized. I am not sure I even know what his voice sounds like. Not a "stat" obviously, but if he was that good, he'd have a buzz and people would want him promoting their product/service.

 

[storrsroars]

Here's my Trout rant.

15 years in the major leagues. Name one memorable moment. He does not have one. And, for such a good start to his career, he has 100+ RBI one time in the last 8 seasons (104) missing a ton of time with injuries. His stats over the last decade aren't impressive. Is he really that special or generational?

Trout had an OPS >.990 every year from 2015-2022, injured or not. That's pretty amazing for 21st century baseball.

He's had a ton of highlight catches. But nobody gives a rat's ass about the Angels.

I have heard Trout speak. He is boring A.F.

 

[tedsdrunk]

allen iverson

 

[Vowelguy]

Barry Bonds

What was great? His ability or his meds? We will never know, so he’s off the list for me.

 

[husky429]

Chris Paul is probably a top 5 point guard of all time, so I’ll throw him out there.

The longevity of his career is being overshadowed because of Lebron just being an absolutely freak. But being 40 years oldin the league and still putting up an effecient 9/8/3 would have been legendary not too long ago.

 

[HooperScooper]

What was great? His ability or his meds? We will never know, so he’s off the list for me.

That’s the sad part. He probably would have been an all time great without the steroids. But he got greedy and now we’ll never know.

 

[Inyatkin]

What was great? His ability or his meds? We will never know, so he’s off the list for me.

He could have retired before his late-career home run binge and gone down as one of the best players in history

 

[superjohn]

What was great? His ability or his meds? We will never know, so he’s off the list for me.

His numbers were seriously inflated every season after he started taking steroids in '99 but so were the rest of the players in that generation. He was the best player in baseball the decade+ before the juice and an all-time great. With the juice he was the best player anyone has ever seen.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Todd Krygier. I just felt like giving some props to our first hockey great.

Didn’t follow Husky Hockey back in the 80’s but he was a name that I always remembered.