"Yes it's true that Jesus happened to be born on Rickey's birthday..."

I didn't get to this yesterday, so my apologies to the many athletes who share with Christianity's biggest all-star the distinguished birthday of December 25th. The Xmas/b-day double-trouble pictorial below includes six baseball players (MLB's first 300-game winner, an outfield-mate of Mel Ott, two great second-baggers [one so ill-matic it's hard to even comprehend his ill-ness in human terms), a former Ham fighter turned Beantowner, and baseball's version of Christ if you happen to be The Rooster (although Rickey probably would say that Christ was just Christianity's version of Rickey)], three footballers (a former Scottish captain, an Angolan whose hairstyle is straight-up loco, and a Brazilian who often finished Pele's feeds), two American footballers (a mad Hungarian fish and a very VERY big kid), two cricketers (a bowling pioneer and a burgeoning batsman), one half of America's Most Wanted, a Mesoamerican expert in the much-underrated sport of sorcery, a race-car driver better known for his cars than his racing, an Olympic boxer better known as the father of a tennis champion, and an avid fisherman and sailor better known as a hard-boiled gumshoe, or a hard-living pilot, or a hard-luck owner of a very famous gin joint.