Who is the most worshiped sports star in your opinion?

Who is the most worshiped sports star in your opinion?

Federer or Messi.

In the USA it would be Babe Ruth followed by Michael Jordan

What about Lebron James?

lol how old are you? no one gives a shit about baseball or babe ruth anymore

Ali.

Ronaldo, Messi, Bolt

Federer, Ronaldo, Messi. Either of those guys. The more worship Federer got after winning his 20th grand slam was ridiculous.

Babe Ruth? I highly doubt it.

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PELE BR HUE!

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This awesome motherfucker.

Ronaldo?
Baricello?

LOL, who the fuck is that? The world is bigger than just Murica you cunt.

I love it when american football superbowl winners put "world champions" on headlines

Fuck Federer. The media just sick his dick all day, most overrated player ever.

Payton Manning is really one of the greatest of all time. Glad to see more like him also. His brother isn't bad either.

Former sportswriter user here.


Babe is the single most dominant athlete in any sport ever......however, baseball’s popularity peaked long ago and it’s fair to say that Jordan is the biggest overall icon.

Ali was the single most important athlete of all time, but boxing also has not stood the test of time.

This guys says otherwise

Current non-american here, the ONLY reason why Jordan could be considered is because of China. Messi or Ronaldo are the winners, I am sorry.

How dominant was Babe Ruth?, you ask?

George Herman Ruth, Jr. was the most dominant player in the history of baseball. In fact, you could make a strong case that he dominated his sport in a way that no other athlete in any other sport has ever done. Not Wilt Chamberlain in basketball, not Wayne Gretzky in hockey, not Pele in soccer.

Ruth arrived just as the game was changing, moving from small-ball to the home run era and Ruth led the hitting parade. But he wasn't just a home run machine. He was much, much more.

It can hardly be overstated how much of an impact the Bambino had on the sport of baseball. He was a larger-than-life figure, a true superstar persona perfectly crafted for the Roaring Twenties. His international celebrity brought new and wide-ranging attention to the sport.
But most importantly, he led the vanguard of ballplayers out of the Dead-Ball Era and into the Live-Ball Era. Hitting and pitching changed in the decade where he did his best work and his presence indelibly shaped that change.
The Raw Numbers

Career Home Runs: 714 (the most in MLB history when he retired, now third most)
Career Batting Average: .342 (10th-best all-time)
Career OPS: 1.164 (first all-time)
Career RBI: 2,213 (second all-time)
Career W-L record as a pitcher: 94-46
Career ERA: 2.28
World Series Winner seven times
Set record for home runs in a season (29), then broke it three more times (54, 59 and 60)
Set record (since broken) for consecutive scoreless innings pitched in World Series (29.7)
Stole 123 bases in his career
Member of first Hall of Fame class (1936)

Ruth The Slugger

Everyone knows about the career total for home runs and the magic 60-homer season in 1927. But not everyone knows that in 1918 as a part-time right fielder, part-time pitcher, Ruth led the American League in homers, with 11, in just 95 games. Or that, the following year, he shattered the 35-year-old record for homers in a season with 29 while playing in just 130 games.

As far as active athletes, you may be right.....but Neither Messi and Ronaldo have led their country to the World Cup, which is the sport’s grandest stage. This means they are both lacking. Pele remains soccer’s ultimate icon.

I have minimal sports knowledge, but this sounds about right. I actually think the more somebody knows about sports, the less qualified they probably are to answer this question, on account of being too close to the subject.

>In 1919, when Ruth hit 29 home runs, there were only 447 homers hit in all of the Major Leagues. Ruth's 29 dingers were six percent of the MLB total. In 2012 there were 4934 home runs hit in the Majors; six percent of that total, 296, is more than any one team hit (the Yankees hit 245).

Jump ahead to 1921 when Ruth again broke his own home run record with 59; players throughout the Majors had begun hitting those hard, white balls with far more regularity than they'd ever hit the mushy grey balls of the Dead Ball era—937 bombs were hit that year, more than double what had been hit just two years earlier. But Ruth still hit six percent of the total.

The fact of the matter is, while home runs became dramatically more frequent in the Live Ball era, they were nowhere near as frequent as we often tend to think. The Yankees led the MLB in home runs in that 1921 season, with 134, while no other team even got to 90; only five teams hit as few as 134 in 2012, with the average team hitting 164.

The league average in 1921 was 59 home runs per team, the same number Ruth hit all by himself.
Just on sheer power numbers, Ruth was so far ahead of the pack that there don't seem to be enough superlatives to adequately describe it.

True, but it could also be argued the world cup is the grandest stage in the world when it comes to sport. Bolt is also a contender because he is still clean and factually the fastest man to ever live.

Sportswriter here.

I would agree that Usain Bolt has earned status amongst the top tier of the most dominant athletes of all time.