Wayne Gretzky
It happens that clubs or franchises no longer assign individual numbers to deserved players. But you will look in vain for a shirt number in the entire NHL today: die 99. Because it belonged to Wayne Gretzky. For a whole league to do without it, a lot has to have happened in a player’s career. Gretzky, “The Great One”, is not only a legend in the province of Alberta, where he won the Stanley Cup four times between 1984 and 1988 with the Edmonton Oilers, but also has all the records for the entire league: 894 goals and 1,963 goal assists in 1,478 NHL – To play. The maestro ended his career – how could it be otherwise – in 1999.
Wayne Gretzky
Tiger Woods
Tiger is of African American, Thai and Indigenous descent. Just a few years before his first Masters title in 1997, he would probably have been denied access to the legendary Augusta National Golf Club – which only accepted its first African-American member in 1990 – or at least viewed him with skepticism. Without belittling the merits of golfers like Lee Elder or Calvin Peete, Tiger Woods’ 15 Major wins – including five Masters triumphs – and his unparalleled career in golf transformed the entire sport. Woods embodies the development of golf from an elite pastime to a sport .with an entertainment factor for an ever broader, more diverse and younger audience.
Tiger Woods
