Looked at the thread saying if a player's not an All-Pro within 3 years, they're a bust.
Looking at it from the opposite side ...
1. Best NFL player to ever play who was never named All-Pro?
2. Best MLB player to ever play who was never named an All-Star? (Pitcher or everyday player.)
Eli has never been an All-Pro
The Pro Bowl is useless.
never made an all-star game.
Just going by at his stats he was only a good player for 5 years. And never all that great. His MVP looks dubious in hindsight.
There's another question: If they were voted in, or named as a backup, and they turned it down due to injury, do they still get the "all-star" status in their permanent baseball record?
Looked it up and you're right - Gibson was named as an AS in 1985 and 1988 but declined both times.
Yeah, it's weird, to me at least, that Gibson isn't listed as an all-star the years he turned it down. I guess he wasn't voted in, but was instead invited by the manager, and since he turned it down it was never "official". Still though, by a reasonable definition of all-star, he qualified those years.
Kirk Gibson, who got caught trying to steal first base, never got a dinner!
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For a more personal note: Mookie Wilson.
Football much harder to grade due to their whacky use of pro bowl this and all pro that.
Maybe Steve Deberg.