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.

The game of football was evolving, and the forward pass was not yet an integral part of most offenses. The Cleveland Browns of the upstart AAFC looked to integrate more passes in their offense, and they had the quarterback to that in Otto Graham, an All-American from Northwestern. The AAFC lasted for four years, with Cleveland winning all of them with two league MVPs earned by Graham.

One of the first players to excel as a quarterback, Sammy Baugh also played in the two-way era, where he was a good defensive back and punter. Saying that, it was his throwing acumen that put him on the map, and it was this skill that landed him in the first-ever Pro Football Hall of Fame Class.

"The Big O," Oscar Robertson was one of the greatest point guards in basketball, where he excelled at every level of the game.

Playing in four different decades, Nolan Ryan appeared to age, but his right arm kept throwing out batters, winning his last of eleven Strikeout Titles at 43.

Inducted in the charter classes for both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, Red Grange has been called by many the greatest college football player of all-time. Of course, that is subjective, but the Illinois halfback was the only man to be unanimously named in 1969 to the all-time All-American Team.