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Watching: SportsCentury

9.0•1999-01-21•5 Seasons
Season 1
Episode 53

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Episodes

EP 65
Casey Stengel
EP 1
1900-49
EP 2
No. 50 -- Chris Evert
EP 3
No. 49 -- O.J. Simpson
EP 4
No. 48 -- Pete Sampras
EP 5
No. 47 -- Edwin Moses
EP 6
No. 46 -- Eric Heiden
EP 7
No. 45 -- Bill Tilden
EP 8
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1950s
EP 9
No. 44 -- Bobby Jones
EP 10
No. 43 -- Julius Erving
EP 11
No. 42 -- Sandy Koufax
EP 12
No. 41 -- Wilma Rudolph
EP 13
No. 40 -- Lawrence Taylor
EP 14
No. 39 -- Walter Payton
EP 15
No. 38 -- Ben Hogan
EP 16
No. 37 -- Mickey Mantle
EP 17
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1960s
EP 18
No. 36 -- Oscar Robertson
EP 19
The Greatest Coaches of the Century
EP 20
No. 35 -- Secretariat
EP 21
Most Influential People in Sports
EP 22
Greatest Dynasties
EP 23
No. 34 -- Lou Gehrig
EP 24
No. 33 -- Mark Spitz
EP 25
Greatest Games
EP 26
No. 32 -- Johnny Unitas
EP 27
No. 31 -- Bobby Orr
EP 28
No. 30 -- Larry Bird
EP 29
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1970s
EP 30
No. 29 -- Arnold Palmer
EP 31
No. 28 -- Red Grange
EP 32
No. 27 -- Jerry Rice
EP 33
No. 26 -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
EP 34
No. 25 -- Joe Montana
EP 35
No. 24 -- Sugar Ray Robinson
EP 36
No. 23 -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
EP 37
No. 22 -- Joe DiMaggio
EP 38
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1980s
EP 39
No. 21 -- Gordie Howe
EP 40
No. 20 -- Ty Cobb
EP 41
No. 19 -- Martina Navratilova
EP 42
No. 18 -- Bill Russell
EP 43
No. 17 -- Magic Johnson
EP 44
No. 16 -- Ted Williams
EP 45
No. 15 -- Jackie Robinson
EP 46
No. 14 -- Hank Aaron
EP 47
No. 13 -- Wilt Chamberlain
EP 48
No. 12 -- Carl Lewis
EP 49
No. 11 -- Joe Louis
EP 50
No. 10 -- Babe Didrikson
EP 51
No. 9 -- Jack Nicklaus
EP 52
No. 8 -- Willie Mays
EP 53
No. 7 -- Jim Thorpe
EP 54
No. 6 -- Jesse Owens
EP 55
No. 5 -- Wayne Gretzky
EP 56
No. 4 -- Jim Brown
EP 57
No. 3 -- Muhammad Ali
EP 58
No. 2 -- Babe Ruth
EP 59
No. 1 -- Michael Jordan
EP 60
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1990s
EP 61
Yogi Berra
EP 62
Derek Jeter
EP 63
Brian Piccolo
EP 64
Brian Piccolo
EP 102
No. 50 - Chris Evert
EP 103
Joe DiMaggio
EP 104
Willie Mays
EP 105
Billy Martin
EP 106
Don Larsen

Overview

SportsCentury is an ESPN biography program that reviews the people and athletic events that defined sports in North America throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. In 1999, ESPN counted down the Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century, selected from North American athletes and voted on by a panel of sports journalists and observers, premiering a new biography highlighting each top athlete every week throughout the year. The episodes for the top two athletes, Michael Jordan and Babe Ruth, appeared on a special combined edition broadcast on Christmas Day on ABC. The top two names were announced in no particular order, and the final positioning was announced at the conclusion of the two episodes. An additional list of numbers 51-100 were announced on the ESPN SportsCentury website. Themed specials such as Greatest Games, Greatest Coaches, Greatest Dynasties, and Most Influential Individuals were premiered throughout the year, as well as six SportsCenter of the Decade programs. After the initial run was complete, the episodes were rerun at various times on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Classic. The original plan for the series was to expand to include #51-#100. Ultimately, the series featured nearly every athlete from #51-#100, and numerous other personalities, especially those who were recently deceased, or notable for more recent accomplishments.