There have been women who won Olympic Gold in Ladies’ figure skating before Peggy Fleming won in Grenoble in 1968, but with all due respect, Fleming's grace and unique style set her apart from even the others who were classified as elite.

Peggy Fleming was the elegant swan, and Dorothy Hamill was the "girl next door." This is a compliment to them both as you could not take your eyes off of them, but for different reasons.

If it had four wheels, A.J. Foyt could drive it…and win.

Over his illustrious career, Foyt made history as the only driver to have won the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. His 159 USAC wins are also a record. Foyt competed in the midget car, sprint car, championship car, stock car, and sports car circuits, and while that is not wholly unique, his combined success is unparalleled in motorsports.

Racing from 1958 to 1992, "The King" Richard Petty is not just one of the most successful auto racers of all-time; he is easily amongst the most popular.

It is next to impossible to argue that the most successful NASCAR driver isn't Richard Petty. He won 200 races in NASCAR, nearly double his closest rival, and his seven wins at the Daytona 500 is also a record. Petty is a seven-time champion at the end of the year, winning the Grand National Series Championship twice, and when it changed over to the Winston Cup Series, capturing that five times.

The American Basketball Association had its share of talent, but nobody shone brighter than “Dr. J” Julius Erving.

Erving signed with the ABA out of UMass, and the superstar would eventually lead the New York Nets to two ABA championships and help legitimize the league. When the ABA and NBA merged, Erving again proved that the ABA was a worthwhile organization when he became an NBA MVP and champion by leading the Philadelphia 76ers to an NBA Title.

Matt Biondi made the Olympics ahead of schedule, at age 19, making the 1984 Los Angeles Games, where he won Gold in the 4x100 Freestyle. It was a great start, and in 1986, after winning seven medals at the World Championships, Biondi went to the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where he came in with high expectations.

Just how good was Ty Cobb?

When the Baseball Hall of Fame named their first class in 1936, it was Cobb who received the most votes, defeating such luminaries as Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson.

There is no greater star when it comes to the track & field discipline of hurdles than Edwin Moses. Period.

Moses won the 400 m hurdles at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, and from 1987 to 1987, he won 107 consecutive finals while also setting the world record four times. Unable to defend his Olympic title at the 1980 Moscow Games due to the boycott, Moses reclaimed the Olympic Gold at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. He continued to compete in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, winning the Bronze.

Denton True “Cy” Young set an unbreakable standard of 511 wins, a record that will never be broken. Young, who played for Cleveland (AA), St. Louis (NL), Boston (AL), Cleveland (AL), and Boston (NL), was a power pitcher for the first half of his career and a control pitcher for his second half, and due to the time, he played 1890-1911, is considered to be the player who bridged the early days to the modern era.

As the passing game slowly grew in football, you had to know that elite receivers were only a matter of time. Don Hutson was the first and the prototype for every wideout in football.