100 Greatest Sports Photos of all Time [slideshow warning]

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[FlJoePa]

This is old. I think I saw it last year, but still pretty cool. No way around the slideshow, so spare me.

Some I don't agree with, and some are missing. But who am I?

[FlJoePa]

I do have a favorite though...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

You Know The Drill
Click the Pic

Hey! FReepers!
Help Fill The Tank!
How About It? Huh?
It Ain't Askin' Too Much
Ya Know....

[CivilWarBrewing]

My personal favorite:

[FlJoePa]

I still think it's hard to match this:

[dfwgator]

Feyenoord sucks, Ajax Amsterdam Rules!

[nickcarraway]

Cassius Clay over Sunny Liston?

[FlJoePa]

My second favorite - not because it's all that great of a photo, but just that it shows that the truly great are always competitive. At any age.

[yarddog]

I am not going to go through the list but there was a picture taken over a hundred years ago which has widely been considered the greatest sports photo ever.

It is of Ty Cobb sliding into 3rd and just beating the tag.

I suspect it is not in this list.

[Michael.SF.]

it’s not, and should be.

[FlJoePa]

Yup...one of the ones I feel should be WAY up there, yet is not included at all.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Yogi is in two of them: Don Larsen’s perfect game and Jackie Robinson’s steal of home. Always second fiddle. But, a marvelous one.

[frog in a pot]

Ernest Hemingway would be disappointed except, perhaps, for the absence of bull fighting.

[dfwgator]

God how I miss those days.

[nickcarraway]

Good picture. But I never considered golf a sport.

[FlJoePa]

Jack used to whip the tennis pro at Lost Tree on his grass tennis court regularly. Is tennis a sport?

[Sergio]

Home viewing bookmark

[Fair Paul]

There’s so many great pictures but I think there’s a better one than Turcotte riding Secretariat at the Belmont (#72). It’s of him looking back, you could see how far back the other horses were. I guess with photographers, like real estate, it’s location, location, location.

[Michael.SF.]

I am not sure the criteria for "best" but it seems they have three sets of best:

1) Pictures of great moments.
2) Pictures that look great (the fish in a fish).
3) PC/sympathy shots (the 3' tall HS football player, the legless swimmer etc.)

Some comments:

1) Where is Bobby Thompson's HR with Ralph Branca's back turned so we see the big #13?
2) Clay standing over Liston gets my vote as # 1.
3) Where is Kirk Gibson's walk off HR?
4) Where is Maz, coming home after his home run?
5) Where is Lou Gehrig wiping the tears from his eyes? (they chose a lesser photo, IMHO)
6) Where are the Russian's celebrating their 'victory' over team USA?
7) Where is Villanova, a #14 seed winning the NCAA's?
8) Where is John Wooden?

Some good shots, yes, but over all too many better shots are missing.

[FlJoePa]

Here's my nominee for best picture of 2012.

Ahhh...Hack. Spring practice can't come soon enough.

[dfwgator]

I’ll always be grateful for you guys beating those thugs from Miami in ‘87.