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Originally Posted by Vulcan
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There's a handful of guys who were drafted by multiple teams of different sports but only really known for playing in another. Like Tom Brady being drafted by the Expos in the 18th round but Scott Burrell was drafted by the Mariners in the first round (26th overall) in 1989, was persuaded not to play baseball fulltime and instead played some college basketball, re-entered the draft, selected in the 5th round by the Blue Jays in 1990 and finally drafted by the Hornets 20th overall in the NBA 1993 draft. The only person to be drafted in a first round in different sports I believe.
But for true multi-sports athletes, let's not forget Lionel Conacher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Conacher
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Lionel Pretoria Conacher, MP (/ˈkɒnəkər/; May 24, 1900 – May 26, 1954), nicknamed "The Big Train", was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championships in numerous sports. His first passion was football; he was a member of the 1921 Grey Cup champion Toronto Argonauts. He was a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team that won the International League championship in 1926. In hockey, he won a Memorial Cup in 1920, and the Stanley Cup twice: with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1934 and the Montreal Maroons in 1935. Additionally, he won wrestling, boxing and lacrosse championships during his playing career. He and Carl Voss are the only players to have their names engraved on both the Grey Cup and Stanley Cup.
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