Introduction
Britain has been an active member of the Olympic family since the Thirties. There have been many great British Olympic athletes in the decades to follow, a list that has hopefully got me in the top ten famous Olympic athletes of all time!
Mark Spitz:
As a runner, he was quite legendary, having won 4 Olympics titles in the years before his victory at the 1972 Munich games. After retiring from racing, he wrote a best-selling autobiography about his life and its impact on him.
Jesse Owens:
The social butterfly, political rally attendee, and runner, he gained iconic status with the publicity he gave to theatrically-tinged ‘Stockcar bulldog’ during the ‘athletics’ of the thirties. His image formed the shape of a fist, and he became an American symbol in the stock market as an asset speculator.
Carl Lewis:
Seven-time ‘at one’ winner of racing’s most coveted individual award won prominence by setting the world record in the middle part of the 20th century, which Antonelli was both honoured and broken in 1906.
Babe Ruth:
The right-handed catcher, ‘the Sultan of Swat’, was a crucial player in the New York Yankees winning five World Series in the seventies, winning three consecutively. Ruth’s failure to win a World Series riding on his last-place team getting punched out of the Series in 1936 knocked him from ‘the great one’ status into ‘just another player.
Michael Johnson:
Drafted from the Carolinas to play baseball in the upper-middle-class ‘Coney Island Killing’ neighbourhood back in the ’70s, Johnson won recognition for the many mistakes his management was willing to make as a catcher before buying for $idences. His running, whitewater-crossing, double-play combination had the Yankees beating the hated Red Sox in six games before a recoil sidelined him for good
Wild Thing:
The charismatic Patmile had a record five home runs in a one-inning 2001 game that virtually won the Yankees’ game. After the game, he walked carefully around the Yankee dugout to the Giants dugout, but before Geno fooled him into doing likewise, the struggling catcher could not get back in time to join his teammates. In spite, Wild Thing looked devastated but did not give up and was nominated for the 2002 All-Star team.
Abner Doubleday:
The ‘Jacksonville Yankee’ was famous for leading the Kansas City team to the pennant before leading the Dead Sox to the World Series and winning the World Series in his famed last game in the Majors.
Mickey Mantle:
The Vincent Gray playmaker was the everyday shortstop of the New York Yankee dynasty that won seven pennants in nine years. Born to a Greek-Italian family in the Bronx, he was sold to Yankees at age 16 to play for the Yankees. He batted .340 for the Yankees that year and became the first rookie to win Most Valuable Player selected by the Yankees
Willie Mays:
The smooth- Turning-the-fielder-winning the pennant in at-bat seven times in the 1957 season. The next year he was the first overall pick in the MLB amateur draft. He led the Yankees to fifty straight victories in the 1960s, leading the team to seven consecutive pennants.
Babe Ruth:Â
The fire-throwing slugger has stayed with the Yankees race after race. He’s the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season (1914), the list’s second-best all-time. In the 1927 season, he had an era of 14 shutouts, a pace at the time so great it hasn’t been surpassed until recently. He led the Yankees to nine world championships, won the Most Valuable Player Award four times, and spent his life in public service.
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