Michael Jordan played in the NBA for 15 seasons between 1984 and 2003, and was widely considered one of the greatest athletes of his generation. But he wasn’t the best.
That would have been his contemporary, Bo Jackson. Jackson played both professional baseball and football, and was an All-Star in each.
His professional baseball career started in 1986, and his NFL career in 1987.
His career – both of them – were full of legendary moments. Negro Leagues legend Buck O’Neill said that when Jackson hit
the ball, he connected with a ferocity that he had only ever heard from two players: Babe Ruth and Josh Gibson.
Then there was the wall running and the insane passes.
In football, he pancaked Brian Bosworth so ferociously that it destroyed Bosworth’s reputation.
But there are more stories, as we learn in this video with Jeff Pearlman. There are several interesting anecdotes, but the one that blows us away is him hitting a fly ball so high that he nearly reached third base before it came down. Several people verify this, including one of the opponents.
Pearlman calls him the greatest athlete of all time, and, really, it’s hard to argue.
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