ESPN Top 100 Athletes Quiz

Sammy Baugh (#64) was a football player for the Washington Redskins. Henry Armstrong (#87), according to my search online, was a boxer.

Sammy Baugh was a football player, not a basketball player....duh

And Walter Johnson was a baseball player, not track and field

they have actual horses on here?!? i figured they meant HUMAN athletes

I remember hating this list at the time ESPN came out with it for many reasons. One was that it seemed to make little sense on who they considered to be North American and who they considered not to be (Navratilova became an American citizen after the start of her career and won a lot of her titles before the change), another was that it has horses on the list. Lastly was that, at the time, I was angered by the fact that Wayne Gretzky was lower than he should have been, and that Babe Ruth should have been #1, being farther ahead of the 2nd best baseball player during his day than Jordan ever was ahead of the #2 basketball player. I just figured Jordan got it because he was alive and because his playing days had just ended, making the memory of him fresh. I DO consider Jordan the greatest NBA player ever, just that the distance between him and the #2 all-time b-ball player is, in my estimation, smaller than between Ruth and the #2 in baseball and Gretzky and #2 at hockey. My top 5 would look like this: 1.) Rut

Cont: 1.) Ruth 2.) Gretzky 3.) Jordan 4.) Jim Brown 5.) Ali

This list isn't about which athletes were the "best". Otherwise, there is no explanation for Jackie Robinson being #15. He is not the 4th best baseball player of the 20th century. He was, however, one of its most important athletes; one who- like Jesse Owens, Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, Wayne Gretzky, Hank Aaron, Billie Jean King, Magic Johnson, Joe Namath and Roberto Clemente to name a few- transcended their individual sport and became part of something bigger and more meaningful than being "just a great athlete". That's what this list is about.

I agree with bhumbar, I never would have guessed that you meant actual horse's names, I thought you wanted human names, like their jockeys. Also, I'm going to be a feminist and point out that only 4 out of 100 of these are female athletes...ESPN really needs to spread out the credit, most of these athletes are football and baseball players.

For Babe Zaharias, I notice you accept Didrickson, but it is actually spelled Didrikson. So, I think it should be accepted, as well.