QUOTE(JohnCangelosi @ May 29, 2007 -> 01:37 PM)
Bo Jackson was, without a doubt, the best athlete to ever play baseball, and probably the best athlete of the 20th century.
I'll go to the grave defending that position. For the younger guys in this forum, you should grab some old footage of when he was with Kansas City.
I remember one game against the White Sox, he hit a hard 2 hopper to Scotty Fletcher at short (this is when KC was on turf).
Scotty fielded it cleanly, patted his glove and FIRED and hard as he could to first. Got Bo by maybe 1/4 of a step. I have never seen a faster, more powerful specimen in my life.
I am with ya in that he is the greatest ahlete I have ever seen I think if he had a full time commitment to football and didn't have that injury we might be talking about him as the all time greatest running back. I remember all of the plays he made in the OF while playing for the Royals and also he had a cannon for a arm