After Michael Phelps won his third gold medal on Tuesday, the question of how he ranks among the greatest athletes ever grew organically on the radio -- and actually, it stemmed from a conversation about Babe Ruth. We were talking about how only Ruth had hit his first 200 homers in a Yankees uniform faster than Alex Rodriguez, and I mentioned that if you were to draw up a list of the 10 greatest male athletes and define the criterion for placement as transcendence over that athlete's sport, the ...

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