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All-time favorite athlete whose career was cut short?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Jan 4, 2011.

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  1. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Bobby Orr.
     
    Double J, Jan 4, 2011
    #13
  2. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Roy Hobbs.
     
    Azrael, Jan 4, 2011
    #14
  3. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    Bobby Orr
     
    HC, Jan 4, 2011
    #15
  4. Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!

    Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!! Well-Known Member

    Does Sayers count? He is in the Hall of Fame...

    Unrelated to this ... I head him on a KU football broadcast last year and he came off as a fellow who was supremely confident in his athletic abilites.
     
    Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Jan 4, 2011
    #16
  5. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    Bo Jackson
    Len Bias
    JR Richard
    Mark Fidrych
     
    93Devil, Jan 4, 2011
    #17
  6. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Me. And then when I turned 12 in Little League, some asshole had invented the curveball ...
     
    hondo, Jan 4, 2011
    #18
  7. nmmetsfan

    nmmetsfan Active Member

    Bo knows Diddly
     
    nmmetsfan, Jan 4, 2011
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  8. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Gooden pitched 16 years in the majors. I don't see how you could say his career was "cut short." He certainly wasn't as good as he could have been, but his career lasted quite a while.

    And I also bristle every time I hear that Gooden's drug problems derailed his career; that his downfall was all his own fault. Doing cocaine certainly didn't help, but the fact he threw 1,300-plus big-league innings by age 23 and blew his shoulder out in 1989 had a lot more to do with it than that drugs did.
     
    Steak Snabler, Jan 4, 2011
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  9. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Phidippides.
     
    Azrael, Jan 4, 2011
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  10. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    Don Mattingly.
     
    Guy_Incognito, Jan 4, 2011
    #22
  11. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    That was the second name that came to mind. Terrell Davis was another one as well.
     
    Mizzougrad96, Jan 4, 2011
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  12. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

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    Jean "Rosie" LaRose, Montreal Canadiens rookie of the year

    "That was a great hat trick you had against Czechoslovakia. Sorry about that nervous breakdown. I guess it kinda ruined your career."
     
    Steak Snabler, Jan 4, 2011
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