The Greatest Athlete To Wear #13 is Wilt Chamberlain.

Notable #13’s- the number one runner up has to be Dan Marino. Marino did it all but win a Super Bowl. I don’t think Marino can be blamed though for that. The Dolphins never built a Super Bowl team around him. Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame receiver for the Colts and Jets. Joe Willie’s favourite target in New York. Jake Scott was a 5 time All-Pro with Miami and won the Super Bowl MVP Award in the game against the Redskins. Kurt Warner had one of the most interesting and fascinating careers in sports that I can recall-from rags to riches to rags and back to riches. He should make the Hall of Fame when he is up for it I’d think. He took the Rams and Cardinals to Super Bowls.

In baseball-Dave Concepcion was an outstanding shortstop for the Big Red Machine in the 1970’s. He is one of those players who just falls short of Cooperstown. Lance Parrish was one of the best catchers in baseball for the Tigers in the 1980’s. Omar Vizquel is one of the finest defensive shortstops in baseball history.Billy Wagner was one of the best relief pitchers -for Houston in the 1990’s. I guess I should mention A-Fraud- Alex Rodriguez. Take him off the juice and he’s just another ballplayer. A totally fake human being. Not to be critical or anything.

In hockey Mats Sundin is probably the best Maple Leaf in the past couple decades. I’d love to see the Maple Leafs win a Stanley Cup some year.

In basketball- Glenn Robinson was a fine player for a number of years. Steve Nash is the greatest player ever to come out of Canada and one of the great players of the past two decades. A certain Hall of Famer.

The Greatest Athlete To Wear #13 is Wilton Norman Chamberlain. Wilt Chamberlain was a force of nature. Every once in a while-and not too often a total freak comes along-and I mean this in a good way. Wilt was a freak. Nolan Ryan was a freak. Bo Jackson was a freak. We will never see another Wilt Chamberlain. Wilt one season averaged..averaged 50.4 points a game. He averaged 30.1 in his career.  Wilt is the only player to have his number retired by three different teams. The only thing he couldn’t do was shoot free-throws and win more championships. He should have won more than the 2 he did. Wilt was a great stats guy. The man scored 100 points in a game. Kobe got 82 a few years ago and they went ga-ga over it. Kobe was still 18 short of Wilt and Wilt didn’t have the 3 point shot. Not that he would have been shooting 3’s but Kobe had the 3. Wilt was a great player but he wasn’t the greatest center ever- that title belongs to Mr. William Felton Russell. The bottom line- Wilt was about personal stats- Bill Russell was about making his teammates better players and winning championships. Wilt just didn’t get it..but he’s still the greatest #13.