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The best all-around athletes

By Jeff Merron
Page 2

Monday, April 26, 2004

The best athletes of all time -- it's been done, but we're doing it again. These guys were simply built for sport, guys who did -- or could have -- succeeded in just about any sport they chose. 10. Lou Gehrig The Iron Horse was 6 feet and 200 pounds of pure muscle -- in columnist Jim Murray's words, "a symbol of indestructibility -- a Gibraltar in cleats." Gehrig was strong and tough enough to play fullback and linebacker at Columbia in the early 1920s, and his sheer durability, exemplified by ...

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