I’m surprised nobody here has mentioned Willie Mays and Jackie Robinson. Both of them were multi-sport players in high school, and Robinson was apparently a better football player than baseball player at UCLA, where he was a four-sport athlete.
And then there’s Josh Gibson, who many people say was the greatest baseball player of all time.
Of course, nobody will ever know who the actual “greatest athlete of all-time” is because, how do you even go about evaluating such a thing? There are many variables. In addition, we only know about the athletes from the last century or so, maybe there was some Olympian from ancient Greece, or a Mongol rider, or a Zulu chief who were exceptionally athletic. We have no way of knowing, other than legends and stories. I guess it’s just fun to speculate.
