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I beg to differ. Most of the sports listed b Mr, Burke for Babe involved brief engagement and are undocumented, I would put up for the Greatest multi-sports athlete Catherine Fellmeth of Chicago. Although one of the most extraordinary athletes America ever produced, she remains a virtual unknown. A world class track and field athlete, 1927-1941, she won the National AAU championship in shot put five times, discus three times, and baseball throw once. Fellmeth also made her mark as top basketball player, a nationally renowned softball pitcher, and a national champion bowler; She also competed in bicycle racing, volleyball, and speedskating, and won medals and championships in each. Fellmeth is perhaps the only American athlete who with her teams have won national championships in three different sports--in softball in 1934; in track and field in 1930, 1931, 1933 and 1936; and in bowling in 1940 and 1942. Her sustained competition for 10 years or more in basketball, softball, bowling, track and field (at the highest levels), plus her many documented achievements and championships in speedskating, cycling, volleyball shows she merits recognition as the greatest multisports athlete above Babe, who shown sustained excellence only in golf, basketball, and track, the latter no more than a year or so.

From: Greatest Athlete of All-Time? A Case For The "Babe”

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