Michael Jordan is not the only athlete talented in different sports: can you name two people since the 1980's, who played NFL football and major league baseball, and one person who played major league baseball and NBA basketball?

The era of the two-sport star is a special chapter in sports history, and few athletes embodied it better than Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders. Both men managed the incredible feat of playing professionally in the NFL and MLB concurrently. Jackson was a phenomenon of pure athletic power, becoming an NFL Pro Bowl running back for the Los Angeles Raiders and an MLB All-Star outfielder for the Kansas City Royals. His talent was so legendary it spawned the famous "Bo Knows" advertising campaign.

Deion "Prime Time" Sanders brought a different kind of flash and record-setting swagger to both sports. As a shutdown cornerback, he won two Super Bowls and was later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In baseball, he was a speedy outfielder who once played an NFL game and flew to join his MLB team for a playoff game in the same week. To this day, Sanders is the only person in history to have played in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.

While the football-baseball combination is the most famous, the path from the diamond to the hardwood is even rarer. Danny Ainge began his athletic career as a young infielder for the Toronto Blue Jays, playing parts of three seasons in the major leagues. However, he ultimately chose to pursue his other passion, basketball. The decision proved wise, as Ainge went on to become an NBA All-Star and a key guard on two championship-winning Boston Celtics teams in the 1980s.