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- These days, it's rare for an elite athlete to play multiple sports beyond high school — if they even get that far. However, that wasn't always the case, and for the very select few, they were even able to excel in college and/or professionally at more than one sport. Here we chronicle the 32 greatest two-sport athletes of all time.
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- Jim Thorpe. > Sports: Football, baseball, track & field. There is little debate that Jim Thorpe is the greatest multi-sport athlete ever. He gained worldwide fame by winning gold in the pentathlon and decathlon events in the 1912 Olympics.
- Bo Jackson. > Sports: Baseball, football. Bo Jackson is the only person to make an All-Star team in two different pro sports. After winning the Heisman Trophy at Auburn University, Jackson didn’t want to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who drafted him first overall in 1986, so he played baseball instead.
- Jackie Robinson. > Sports: Baseball, track & field, basketball, football. Jackie Robinson is a baseball Hall of Famer, but that may not have been one of his best sports.
- Gene Conley. > Sports: Basketball, baseball. Gene Conley was a rare combination of a pitcher and power forward. In 1952, he played for the Boston Braves of the MLB and the Boston Celtics of the NBA.
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