Your city's top-10 athletes of all time...

[Mr Fahrenheit]

STL
1. Stan Musial
2. Albert Pujols
3. Brett Hull
4. Marshall Faulk
5. Bill Bradley
6. Jimmy Connors
7. Michael Spinks
8. Kurt Warner
9. Chris Pronger
Tied for 10th: Dan Dierdorf, Bob Gibson, Rogers Hornsby, Orlando Pace, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Ozzie Smith, Kenny Wallace, Ed McCauley

Hornsby should be 1 or 2, not a HM/10th

 

[Weztex]

I'd probably put Jacques Villeneuve in the mix as well (well, he DID win a WDC), Patrick Roy and Arturo Gatti as well. I know I'd put Gatti well ahead of Cavillo.

One could argue that Jackie Robinson could go first in the grand scheme of things, but it's also a bit tough to justify putting him first when he only played one AAA season.

For some reasons I thought Jacques wasn't born in the area since he spent his childhood oversees. He definitely belongs. Roy was there, I don't know what happened. I probably deleted him by mistake.

Good call on Gatti. Never thought of him. I would probably put him around 15.

 

[MXD]

For some reasons I thought Jacques wasn't born in the area since he spent his childhood oversees. He definitely belongs. Roy was there, I don't know what happened. I probably deleted him by mistake.

Good call on Gatti. Never thought of him. I would probably put him around 15.

Both Jacques and Gilles are born in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, which almost certainly makes it the only Canadian city to have produced more F1 drivers than SC Winners.

 

[BJNT]

Hakeem Olajuwon
Earl Campbell
Nolan Ryan
Warren Moon
Clyde Drexler
Craig Biggio
Jeff Bagwell
Gordie Howe
Roger Clemens
James Harden

Honorable mention: Sheryl Swoops, Jose Altuve, J.J. Watt, Cynthia Cooper, Joe Morgan and Andre Johnson.

 

[Axe Man]

The Yankees alone have at least 10 superstars so I won’t even include them.

I’ll just go by teams. I know I am missing players so feel free to edit my post.

Trottier
Bossy
Potvin

Leetch
Messier
Lundquist

Seaver
Piazza
Wright
DeGrom

Namath

LT
Manning

Ewing

I don’t follow the Giants or Knicks so I’m sure I left players out.

 

[Neutrinos]

The Yankees alone have at least 10 superstars so I won’t even include them.

I’ll just go by teams. I know I am missing players so feel free to edit my post.

Trottier
Bossy
Potvin

Leetch
Messier
Lundquist

Seaver
Piazza
Wright
DeGrom

Namath

LT
Manning

Ewing

I don’t follow the Giants or Knicks so I’m sure I left players out.

I would think Gooden and possibly Strawberry would be ahead of DeGrom

 

[Axe Man]

I would think Gooden and possibly Strawberry would be ahead of DeGrom

I agree. Totally forgot about both of them. I’m a little embarrassed too because I am a Met fan.

 

[Byron Bitz]

Kind of gave thought to an order

Mario Lemieux
Roberto Clemente
Sidney Crosby
Evgeni Malkin
Mean Joe Greene
Willie Stargell
Troy Polamalu
Honus Wagner
Terry Bradshaw
Jack Lambert

not from Pittsburg but I would of thought Bradshaw would be higher

 

[Byron Bitz]

Pavel Bure
Trevor Linden
Henrik Sedin
Daniel Sedin
Kirk McLean
Roberto Luongo
Shareef Abdur-Rahim (less because of on court success but because the Grizz are near mythical status and he was the star)
Stan Smyl
Tiger Williams

and above all of them, by far Canada's greatest athlete ever

Terry Fox

Im a Raptors fan and even I say they should bring back the Grizzlies.

 

[Beauner]

not from Pittsburg but I would of thought Bradshaw would be higher

Pittsburgh* and it's just a personal preference. I'm sure others would rank him higher

 

[Section32]

Even thought I was born and raised and thus root for NY teams (other then Boston College, Chelsea FC and Bayern Munich ((long story)), it is somewhat unfair to compare cities who might have 4-5 teams to those like NY who have 11+ pro teams....) Though, in all honestly, most of NY's teams could barely be considered professional in any sense of the word.

You choose the Jets, Mets, Knicks and Islanders and, well, good luck with that.

Also, Pele played for the Cosmos- a player many consider to be the greatest athlete on the planet. Also, that team had Beckenbauer as well....

 

[Maestro84]

If we're only counting the big four then Toronto would be (in no order):

Alomar
J. Carter
Kawhi
VC
Lowry
Sundin
Halladay
Delgado
Bautista
Clark (?)
A bunch of old dudes from the Leafs

I may be from Toronto but I'm not a Leaf fan so I'm not as familiar with their team as a lot of my friends and colleagues would be. Even then, they're hardly had any big names in the modern era

 

[BorisKarloff]

Milwaukee, WI
Note: Green Bay Packers split home games between GB and Milwaukee between 1933-94.

A "reasonable" case can be made for each to be considered the greatest to ever play their respective sport:

1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2. Hank Aaron
3. Don Hutson
4. Brett Favre

No claim to be the greatest, but most likely top 50 in their respective sport:

5. Warren Spahn
6. Eddie Matthews
7. Oscar Robertson
8. Bob Pettit
9. Bart Starr
10. Ray Nitschkie

Alternative list, not including Packers:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Hank Aaron
Warren Spahn
Eddie Matthews
Oscar Robertson
Bob Pettit
Moses Malone
Robin Yount
Paul Molitor
Rollie Fingers

Not in our top ten (but because it is a hockey website)
Top Hockey Players:

Shea Webber
Pekka Rinne

 

[Hasbro]

1. John Elway
2. Joe Sakic
3. Peter Forsberg
4. Shannon Sharpe
5. Patrick Roy
6.Todd Helton
7. Von Miller
8. Champ Bailey
9. Alex English
10. Terrell Davis

MacKinnon and Jokic are making noise.

 

[Hasbro]

agree with Alex English over Melo.
Jack Dempsey should be on that list somewhere. possibly Jenny Simpson as well.

He's not really from Denver. He's a slam dunk for the state list.

 

[Neutrinos]

If we're only counting the big four then Toronto would be (in no order):

Alomar
J. Carter
Kawhi
VC
Lowry
Sundin
Halladay
Delgado
Bautista
Clark (?)
A bunch of old dudes from the Leafs

I may be from Toronto but I'm not a Leaf fan so I'm not as familiar with their team as a lot of my friends and colleagues would be. Even then, they're hardly had any big names in the modern era

Joe Carter shouldn't be anywhere near this list

In 7 seasons in Toronto he put up an 8.5 WAR in total, and actually had a negative WAR in each of his last 3 seasons with the Blue Jays

His stats with Toronto in 1039 games are: .259 AVG, .306 OBP, .771 OPS

For comparison sake, here are Jesse Barfield's stats in 1032 games with Toronto: .265 AVG, .336 OBP, .817 OPS

Barfield's WAR with the Jays was 29.5

 

[Voight]

Not from Boston (quite frankly I cannot stand the Cheat Sox or Celtics) but its gotta be between them, NYC and LA.

 

[Voight]

STL
1. Stan Musial
2. Albert Pujols
3. Brett Hull
4. Marshall Faulk
5. Bill Bradley
6. Jimmy Connors
7. Michael Spinks
8. Kurt Warner
9. Chris Pronger
Tied for 10th: Dan Dierdorf, Bob Gibson, Rogers Hornsby, Orlando Pace, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Ozzie Smith, Kenny Wallace, Ed McCauley

Jimmy Connors... stealth pick. (pun intended - but would not have thought to include him myself if I was making a STL list)

 

[newfy]

Not from Boston (quite frankly I cannot stand the Cheat Sox or Celtics) but its gotta be between them, NYC and LA.

Detroit gives them all a run as well

 

[Lions67]

Winnipeg
1. Terry Fox
2. Teemu Selanne
3. Cindy Klassen
4. Jennifer Jones
5. Milt Stegall
6. Patrik Laine
7. Bill Mosienko
8. Dale Hawerchuk
9. Clara Hughes
10. Jeff Stoughton

 

[ziggyjoe212]

Brett Hart

Not an athlete.

 

[rfournier103]

Detroit gives them all a run as well

Hmm...

Ty Cobb
Barry Sanders
Joe Louis
Gordie Howe
Isaiah Thomas
Steve Yzerman
Hank Greenberg
Bobby Layne
Al Kaline
Joe Dumars

Not bad at all.

 

[Pattysaurus]

Babe Ruth
Lawrence Taylor
Lou Gehrig
Joe DiMaggio
Mickey Mantle
Tom Seaver
Derek Jeter
Brian Leetch
Patrick Ewing
Bryan Trottier

 

[Jeffrey Pedler]

1 Gretzky
2 Messier
3 McDavid
4 Moon
5 Coffey
6 Kurri
7 Fuhr
8 Anderson
9 Pronger
10 Draisaitl

I might get slammed for some of my picks but overall it has to be mainly NHL players as the CFL isn’t on the NFL level. The players I listed were all dominant in the best league in the world. Moon simply has to be here

It doesn't matter if the CFL is like NFL. The list is a out your city's top 10 athletes and there are many Eskimos who should be on the list, instead of Oilers.

 

[cowboy82nd]

The Yankees alone have at least 10 superstars so I won’t even include them.

I’ll just go by teams. I know I am missing players so feel free to edit my post.

Trottier
Bossy
Potvin

Leetch
Messier
Lundquist

Seaver
Piazza
Wright
DeGrom

Namath

LT
Manning

Ewing

I don’t follow the Giants or Knicks so I’m sure I left players out.

You wouldn't put Strawberry above Wright and Degrom? I would put Hernandez above both of them and I have Strawberry above Hernandez.