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Robert Lipsyte's Top 10 Most Influential People in Sports History
by Robert Lipsyte
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Robert Lipsyte 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.

Jackie Robinson – As a symbol of grace under pressure, he epitomized the best of sports, and he did it while making an enormous positive impact on the nation’s most troublesome problem, race.

Billie Jean King – She not only opened the sports door for the other 50 percent of Americans, but she was the most important warrior in the battle against exclusionary and corrupt amateurism and for democratic and liberating professionalism.

Albert G. Spalding – By creating the market for baseball, selling the game, selling stars, going international, building a solid management structure, he constructed the model for all our major leagues to come.

Knute Rockne
Roone Arledge
Muhammad Ali
Arnold Palmer
Babe Ruth
Big Bill France
Pete Rozelle

Robert Lipsyte is one of America's most well respected writers and authors. Perhaps best known for his work at the New York Times, Lipsyte was the Emmy Award winning host of the public affairs show The Eleventh Hour and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the author of many acclaimed books for young readers including The Contender, The Brave, The Chief and Warrior Angel. His non-fiction work includes: Nigger: The Autobiography of Dick Gregory.
 

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