Five Sport Legends
Doc. Series & Series of Special
Synopsis
From the second Olympiad of the modern era in 1900 to today; both as participants and spectators; we have become a global community of sports fanatics. Our sports heroes inspire and captivate us by working miracles on a baseball diamond; a golf course a basketball court, a soccer field or in a boxing ring; Only a select few athletes, however, attain truly mythic status and become sports legends. Here are five such champions: MUHAMMAD ALI, who brashly declared himself the greatest boxer in the world and then backs up his claim; BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS; Olympic track star and champion golfer who was named Woman Athlete of the Half-Century in 1950; BABE RUTH, whose mighty bat and bravura helped baseball survive a devastating scandal; PELE, who has been proclaimed the greatest player of the world's most popular game - soccer -; and MICHAEL JORDAN whose individual feats helped build basketball's greatest dynasty.
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