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TBOR Athlete of the Month - October, 2010 +1999 Athlete of the Year

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Matt Cain.  Runners up - Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Cody Ross.

10 months in.  You can get to the previous winners here.

Back in '99, AP and I both picked Tiger Woods.

Jan: John Elway (Peerless Price, Terrell Davis, Chris Chandler)
Feb: Jeff Gordon (Patrick Roy, Oscar de la Hoya, Jeff Maggert)
Mar: Rip Hamilton (Lamar Odom, Wally Szczerbiak, Scoonie Penn)
Apr: Jose Maria Olazabel (Jaromir Jagr, Fernando Tatis, Chris Antley)
May: Pedro Martinez (Nomar Garciaparra, Allen Iverson, Luis Gonzalez)
June: Tim Duncan (Andre Agassi, Maurice Greene, Payne Stewart)
July: Mia Hamm (Lindsay Davenport, Hicham el Guerrouj, David Cone)
Aug: Tiger Woods (Dale Jarrett, Sammy Sosa, Michael Jordan)
Sept: Felix Trinidad (Barry Bonds, Serena Williams, Chipper Jones)
Oct: Orlando Hernandez (Kurt Warner, Nomar Garciaparra, Mariano Rivera)
Nov: Peyton Manning (Tiger Woods, Ron Dayne, Ladainian Tomlinson)
Dec: Kurt Warner (Edgerrin James, Stephen Davis, Gary Payton)

That completed the 90s, my Athlete of the Decade was Michael Jordan.

1 comment

Blog said...

I get why October is baseball heavy, but Jonathan Byrd deserves mention for becoming the first guy to win a PGA tournament with a playoff hole-in-one.

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