15 famous athletes who excelled in more than one sport

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#2 Michael Jordan (basketball and baseball)

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Jordan played baseball for the Chicago White Sox
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Michael Jordan is regarded as the greatest NBA player to have played the game. Jordan has won six NBA titles with Chicago Bulls, two Olympic gold medals, and was induced into the NBA Hall of Fame in 2009. Jordan still has the record for highest Points Per Game in both regular and post-season.

Remarkably though, he retired from the sport in 1993 to play baseball for a team called Chicago White Sox for two years. Although he returned to basketball after that short stint, he left no one in doubt about his extraordinary versatility!

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