From: claudius@leland.stanford.edu (Nelson Lu)
Subject: Most Popular Athletes List
Reply-To: claudius@leland.stanford.edu, chin@sask.usask.ca
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 03:35:49 GMT

I am posting this for Glenn Chin, a regular on rec.sport.hockey who's not
as familiar with rec.sport.baseball as I am.  Please return all comments to
me or to him if you wish by email, or post them on r.s.b.

This is a list of the two most popular athletes in specific North American
cities and regions.  An athlete doesn't have to be from the fan base
area listed to be one of the most popular (e.g. Cal Ripken in Washington).

In order to gain a better appreciation of the breadth of sports interest in a
region, only one athlete is accepted from each team.

This list is subjective.  If you are sure a change in the list is in
order, please reply through e-mail.  Spelling corrections are also appreciated.
Thanks in advance.


Most popular active athletes (one athlete per team per region)		Apr/92

		Most popular			Second most popular
Calgary		Theoren Fleury	(H)		Kerrin Lee-Gartner (S)
Edmonton	Bill Ranford	(H)		Tracy Ham	(F)
Hamilton	Roberto Alomar	(B)		?
Montreal	Patrick Roy	(H)		Gary Carter	(B)
Ottawa		Damon Allen	(F)		?
Quebec City	Joe Sakic	(H)		?
Saskatchewan	Kent Austin	(F)		Wendel Clark?	(H)
Toronto		Roberto Alomar	(B)		Wendel Clark	(H)
Vancouver	Pavel Bure	(H)		Jon Volpe	(F)
Winnipeg	Phil Housley	(H)		Chris Walby	(F)

Atlanta		Dominique Wilkins (K)		Deion Sanders	(F,B)
Baltimore	Cal Ripken, Jr.	(B)		?
Boston		Roger Clemens 	(B)		Larry Bird	(K)
Buffalo		Jim Kelly	(F)		Pat LaFontaine	(H)
Charlotte	Christian Laettner (K)		Larry Johnson	(K)
Chicago		Michael Jordan	(K)		Ryne Sandberg	(B)
Cincinnati	Barry Larkin	(B)		Boomer Esiason	(F)
Cleveland	Bernie Kosar	(F)		Brad Daugherty	(K)
Dallas		Nolan Ryan	(B)		Troy Aikman	(F)
Denver		John Elway	(F)		Dikembe Mutombo	(K)
Detroit		Isiah Thomas	(K)		Steve Yzerman	(H)
Green Bay	Don Majkowski	(F)		?
Hartford	Larry Bird	(K)		John Cullen	(H)
Houston		Warren Moon	(F)		Hakeem Olajuwon	(K)
Indianapolis	Jeff George	(F)		Detlef Schrempf	(K)
Kansas City	Derrick Thomas	(F)		George Brett	(B)
Los Angeles	Wayne Gretzky	(H)		Jim Abbott	(B)
Miami		Dan Marino	(F)		Glen Rice	(K)
Milwaukee	Robin Yount	(B)		?
Minnesota	Kirby Puckett	(B)		Herschel Walker	(F)
New Jersey	Lawrence Taylor	(F)		Derrick Coleman	(K)
New Orleans	Shaquille O'Neal (K)		Dalton Hilliard	(F)
New York City	Patrick Ewing	(K)		Dwight Gooden	(B)
Oakland		Chris Mullin	(K)		Dennis Eckersley (B)
Orange County	Jim Abbott	(B)		Jim Everett	(F)
Orlando		?				?
Philadelphia	Randall Cunningham (F)		Len Dykstra	(B)
Phoenix		Tom Chambers	(K)		?
Pittsburgh	Mario Lemieux	(H)		Andy Van Slyke	(B)
Portland	Clyde Drexler	(K)		?
Sacramento	Lionel Simmons	(K)		?
St. Louis	Ozzie Smith	(B)		Brett Hull	(H)
San Antonio	David Robinson	(K)		?
San Diego	Tony Gwynn	(B)		?
San Francisco	Joe Montana	(F)		Will Clark	(B)
San Jose	Joe Montana	(F)		Pat Falloon	(H)
Seattle		Steve Largent(F) still active?	Ken Griffey, Jr.(B)
Tampa		Vinnie Testaverde (F)		?
Utah		Karl Malone	(K)		?
Washington	Art Monk	(F)		Cal Ripken, Jr.	(B)

B baseball	F football	H hockey	K basketball	S skiing


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