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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 2696197, member: 6620"] Lots of great answers. Rather than add onto or duplicate most of them, I'll add a few ideas. Start with one person who was so good he almost became taken for granted in his own sport, let alone the other two he did well in. [B] Wilt Chamberlain[/B] was quite the multiple sport athlete. Obviously, there's that [I]basketball[/I] thing, from Overbrook in HS to Kansas in college to the Globetrotters and then the NBA. While at Kansas in college, he also took part in [I]track and field[/I]. According to Wikipedia, "he ran the 100-yard dash in 10.9 seconds, shot-putted 56 feet, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_jump']triple jumped[/URL] more than 50 feet, and won the high jump in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Eight_Conference']Big Eight[/URL] track and field championships three straight years." And after retiring from the WNBA, he went whole hog into [I]volleyball[/I], trying his best to make the International Volleyball Association, becoming it's president, playing in exhibition matches and the all-star game to up its publicity (he was named MVP in one such game). He's a member of the [I]Hall of Fames of both basketball and volleyball.[/I] And here's one who nailed it in two sports: - I saw [B]Dave DeBusschere[/B] mentioned, who was [I]All-American in Baseball and Basketball [/I]at University of Detroit, played with White Sox and his hometown Pistons, before the big trade sent him to the Knicks. He was a very young player-coach for the Pistons and after retiring he has the very good luck as New York Knick GM to win the lottery that selected one Patrick Ewing. and one who was so good he almost became taken for granted in his own sport, let alone the other two he did well in. Would like to add one athlete who wasn't great in any one sport, but pretty darn good in a couple and had a pretty decent other career. - [B]Chuck Connors[/B], who played professional [I]basketball, baseball, was drafted by the NFL[/I] and may or may not have been a pretty good shot as [I]"The Rifleman." [/I]Apparently, he is the first recorded NBA'er to have broken a backboard in a game...take that to Lovetron, Darryl Dawkins. [/QUOTE]

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