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Message: [QUOTE="JB123, post: 2698525, member: 7203"] That's true. :) As fans of sports, it's thrilling to see certain types of awe-inspiring plays. And if someone wants to value those plays in terms of their own preferences in how they appreciate sports, more power to them. However, in the context of asking who was the best multi-sport athlete, I think that being good at a sport is defined by how much you help your team win (or, in an individual sport, by how much you win). And spectacular athletic feats don't always help a team win as much as mundane ones do. A baseball player who takes tons of walks, for example, might well be helping his team win more than someone who does things that are more spectacular but less valuable. Peers said many great things about Bo, but also about the other guys discussed in this thread. (I also happen to prefer well-conceived stats to peer assessments as a measure of value, but there's no need to debate that here.) [/QUOTE]