Can anyone name a basketball player that starred in a different sport?

Elftwinkle

Danny Ainge played in the NBA (not sure of which team) after a relatively successful baseball career with the Toronto Blue Jays. Aug 07 02, 4:00 AM

marchmadness1012

Yeah, and recently called up Mark Hendrickson played basketball with Philadephia and now baseball with Toronto. Aug 07 02, 1:46 PM

Sally

Awesome Wilt Chamberlian was also a good swordsman. Aug 07 02, 3:09 PM

elburcher

Before becomming TV's 'The Rifleman' Chuck Conners played Basketball for the Boston Celtics and Baseball for the Chicago Cubs. Aug 08 02, 5:48 AM

yeaux

it was gene conley who played for the celts and pitched for the bosox. chuck connors never played in the majors. charley pride played minor league baseball and sang a little bit. dave debucchere played basketball for the knicks and major league baseball. galen cisco played in the NFL and was a catcher for the pirates and played basketball at osu. frank howard was an all american round balller at osu and played baseball for the dodgers,senators and the rangers. Aug 08 02, 5:26 PM

Barrow boy

The Guinness International Who's Who of Sport lists his achievements only in athletics, football and baseball. Basketball does not get a mention at his official website http://www.cmgww.com/sports/thorpe/thorpe.html Aug 08 02, 10:03 PM

STILTMAN

WILT CHAMBERLAIN WAS A WORLD CLASS VOLLEY BALL PLAYER Aug 09 02, 6:59 PM

Andy	Michael Jordan did a short (but relatively unsuccessful) stint as a baseball player for the Chicago White Sox. Oct 07 02, 6:16 PM

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