apart from jack demsey and babe ruth, who were other well known athletes of the 20s?
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Suzanne Lenglen\n\nSuzanne was born in 1899 in Compiegne. Her full name was Lenglen, Suzanne Rachel Flore. Without a doubt, Lenglen was the most famous and if not best female athlete of the 1920’s.\n\nLenglen trained for tennis by her father from a very little age. When she was 15 she won the world hard-court tennis title. She also won women’s singles title at the Wimbledon six times, the women’s doubles twice and mixed doubles twice.\n\nShe was the dominat female player of her time. She didn’t mind showing her emotion on the court and was talked about for exposal of her forearms and calves. She likes to take sips of brandy between sets. Lenglen only lost once and that was to Norwegin-born Molla Mallory at the 1921 United States championships. She turned professional and toured North America in 1926 and 1927. She also opened a tennis school. She died in 1938.
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it is no longer in exisitance, however when it folded, mlb picked up many great players such as satchel paige. jackie robinson became the first black to jump from the negro league to the majors.
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Greatest male athlete of all time - Jim Thorpe. Jim Thorpe is the only person in history to win gold medals in the pentathlon and the decathlon in the same Olympics. He was one of the greatest football players of all time (the only player to be named to both the Pioneer Era and Modern Era All-Star teams), a major league baseball player, a scratch golfer, an excellent tennis player, a competition class surfer, a top swimmer and a professional basketball player (pre-NBA). And he did it without steroids.
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Original Answer -- *Shoeless Joe Jackson*\n\nI rethought this question and I have rethought my answer. \n\nThis is a question that by far is impossible to answer, because at times have come and gone baseball has changed, the games played has changed, the strength of the batters and pitchers has changed. Medicine has changed and Performance Enhancing Drugs have been introduced.\n\nI think there is no way that you can compare Ty Cobb, to Ernie Banks, Willie Mays, Barry Bonds..... booooooo... hiss...., or any other player. If you were specific to a year to a decade it may be a bit easier to judge, but even then you need to make sure that the grading scale has not changed from the beginning of the decade to the end.\n\nBy far you can not compare a player in the 90's to the 00's  why?\nWell PED's were not banned by MLB in the 90's but now they are. So the players in the 90's had the advantage, even early in this decade. So unfortunately most of our answers are moot and unfair answers. They like everything else is an opinion.
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Great question, I can't think of any for that time period.\n\nAll time great sports names though not necessarily sexy...\n\nDick Trickle, Dick Butkus
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I'll probably take heat for this, but I have to go with Bonds here.\n\nAaron had incredible longevity and consistency - he never hit over 50 home runs, yet holds the career home run record; very impressive. He also did this under intense scrutiny and racial tension - back then, people weren't excited about the Babe being passed by a black man (you might say the same thing is true today, but not to the same extent).\n\nHowever, even before Bonds allegedly (this has never been proven for sure, although it certainly looks like he did it) took steroids, he was doing things few players have ever done in the sport, like hitting for 30 home runs and stealing 30 bases in the same season, which he did a bunch of times (he even went 40/40 in '96). And then his stats are just unbelievable for the past 6-10 years. Not only his home run totals, either. His slugging percentage and walks (he barely got pitches to hit for a few years in a row) rivaled the Babe during this stretch. Sure, steroids (if he did take them) helped, but his innate ability and hard work had to have a big part of this. I mean, the guy was unpitchable for awhile. Aaron was never unpitchable or even close to it.\n\nIt's too bad Bonds has this steroid thing hanging over him.
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Shoeless Joe Jackson ,Picthers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams; infielders Buck Weaver, Arnold "Chick" Gandil, Fred McMullin, and Charles "Swede" Risberg; and outfielder Oscar "Happy" Felsch. I can't pick from the 8 listed as they were equally the worst players of all time IE The Chicago Black Sox team.
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Paul Konerko. He hit 40.
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Red Legs and Black Sox : Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series
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1. Willie Mays (best outfielder of all time, great homerun hitter - 4th all time, and very high batting average.\n\n2. Babe Ruth (maybe the best player in baseball history, set many HR records, revolutionized baseball)\n\n3. Mickey Mantle\n\n4. Ty Cobb\n\n5. Ernie Banks\n\n6. Barry Bonds\n\n8. Joe Dimaggio
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The answer is Jackie Robinson.  In 1947, he became the first African-American player in Major League Baseball.  He was honored as Rookie of the YEar (then only awarded to one player).  Two years later, he was given the National League MVP for a stellar season.\n\nJackie Robinson was a pioneer in the MLB and his memory is still kept alive becuase is his number is retired league-wide.
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Here this will help you \n\n1- Billy Martin, 3- Babe Ruth, 4- Lou Gehrig, 5- Joe DiMaggio, 7- Micky Mantle, 8- Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey, 9- Roger Maris, 10- Phil Rizzuto, 15- Thurman Munson, 16- Whitey Ford, 23- Don Mattingly, 32- Elston Howard, 37- Casey Stengel, 42- Jackie Robinson (retired throughout baseball), 44- Reggie Jackson, 49- Ron Guidry.
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who cares the steroid taken s-o-b babe Ruth set the record taking beer and hot dogs
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In the American League, Jack Morris (8/3/1987) and Charlie Wheatley (9/27/1912) share the record with 5.\n\nIn the National League it's Johnny Ryan (7/22/1876) with 10
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micheal jordan, babe ruth, lance armstrong, mia hamm
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Although I never got to see the All Time Greats, I'd have to say Ted Williams. Stan Musial was great also. Ty Cobb was no slouch either. Adding power you need to add Willie Mays and Babe Ruth.
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Tony Gonzalez, best Tight End ever\nHardy Nickerson\nChuck Muncie\n\nAlso, Jackie Jensen was a great Cal football star but Baseball was still the #1 Sport at the time (they were finally dethroned by the 1994 Strike) and he decided to have a decent career in baseball that saw him limited initially during his prime because Joe DiMaggio was ahead of him on the depth chart.  Jackie did go on to win a 1957 American League MVP award though.