#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
2437	Don Barksdale	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1948–1955	73.4
2442	Larry Doby	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1942–1959	80.8
2590	George Connor	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1948–1955	77.6
2607	Tom Johnson	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1947–1965	79.4
2624	Bill Durnan	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1943–1950	74.6
2628	Jim Burke	Cricket	🇦🇺 Australia	1948–1959	76.2
2632	Steve Van Buren	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1944–1951	75.9
2656	Jackie Robinson	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1945–1956	78.4
2719	Max Bentley	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1940–1954	77.0
2764	Buddy O'Connor	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1941–1951	76.8
2782	Althea Gibson	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1949–1958	72.5
2798	Richie Ashburn	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1948–1962	79.0
2803	Edgar Laprade	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1945–1955	77.4
2819	Fernie Flaman	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1944–1961	78.6
2900	Herb Carnegie	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1944–1954	76.1
2910	Bill Gadsby	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1946–1966	78.4
2924	Doug Ford	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1949–2001	81.0
2959	Nellie Fox	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1947–1965	77.7
3021	Sven Davidson	Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1949–1962	72.6
3029	Julius Boros	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1949–1975	79.6
3038	Cary Middlecoff	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1947–1961	77.1
3096	Peter Thomson	Golf	🇦🇺 Australia	1949–1988	78.1
3152	Louise Suggs	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1946–1969	76.5
3174	Jay Hebert	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1949–1973	77.0
3208	Alberto Ascari	Formula 1	🇮🇹 Italy	1947–1955	74.7
3243	Walter Burkemo	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1946–1965	76.1
3344	Kel Nagle	Golf	🇦🇺 Australia	1946–1980	75.8
3446	Žarko Dolinar	Table Tennis	🇭🇷 Croatia	1946–1957	75.0
3470	Max Faulkner	Golf	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1946–1980	74.3
3519	Tage Flisberg	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1946–1958	74.7
3534	Stirling Moss	Formula 1	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1948–1962	72.7
3581	Chick Harbert	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1940–1970	72.7
3607	Tommy Bolt	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1946–1970	71.3
3612	Jim Rathmann	Formula 1	🇺🇸 United States	1949–1963	72.2
3615	Helen Elliot	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1946–1957	73.0
3631	Jerry Barber	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1948–1980	72.6
3707	Claude Harmon	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1940–1970	70.3
3736	Dick Mayer	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1949–1970	70.0
3762	Ed Furgol	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1945–1970	70.0
3797	Dora Beregi	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1948–1962	70.9

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