name an athLete who became a doctor

[sniffa]

c. everett koop

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. My gynecologist.

[Tektonik]

2. what sort of athlete was he?

*fishing for joke material* :P

[sniffa]

3. what sport did he pLay?

just wondering so i can make the appropriate, off-coLor joke.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. Oh gracious. I should have seen this coming. He was a pro...

baseball player. Something like half a season in the majors if that.

[Taverner]

4. Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. Good one!

[taterguy]

5. Julius Erving obviously

[AngryAmish]

13. I thought he narrated audio books

[taterguy]

17. Maybe he's good at doing more than one thing

[Sanity Claws]

8. Bobby Brown

He was an infielder (I think 2nd base) for the NY Yankees in the early 1960s.

[Sanity Claws]

9. delete

[Sanity Claws]

10. delete

[Gormy Cuss]

11. Eric Heiden

Speed skater, now orthopedic surgeon

Also Debi Thomas, figure skater, now also an orthopedic surgeon.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Steve Arlin

Pitched for San Diego in the club's first five years (they got him from the Phillies in the expansion draft), then became a dentist. I believe he's still practicing in the San Diego area.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

14. Debi Thomas, won the bronze medal in Ladies figure skating

at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

[cloudbase]

15. Gary Cuozzo

quarterbacked the Vikings way back when and is a dentist. Frank Ryan quarterbacked the Browns and got a Ph.D. (Yeah, I know--different kind of doctor.) "Doc" Medich played pro baseball and is an M.D.

[KitchenWitch]

16. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_Graham

[vino]

18. Roger Bannister

first man to run a 4 minute mile is a doctor.