Jim Huber's Top 10 Most Influential People in Sports History

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Jim Huber is one of 13 HOFMAG.com Senior Staff to contribute a list of the Top Ten Most Influential People in Sports History. How does it compare with your own choices or the lists of the other HOFMAG.com writers in the box to the right? Find out all the results, from Who's #1 to "also ran" in HOFMAG.com's Top 10 Most Influential People in Sports History.

10. Pele

9. Roone Arledge

8. Billie Jean King

7. Jesse Owens

6. Branch Rickey

5. Michael Jordan

4. Tiger Woods

3. Lamar Hunt

2. Mark McCormack – How poor would our athletic children be today if McCormack hadn't come along, hitched his wagon to the great Arnold Palmer, and begun what would become the hugely influential talent agency IMG with all of its resulting tentacles.

1. Muhammad Ali – There has never been an athlete in world history who has transcended his sport to such an enormous degree. As he told me once, years ago, "I'm not only pretty, I'm not only the greatest, but the Pope of Rome knows me." Right on all counts.