Casey Stengel

1900-49

No. 50 -- Chris Evert

No. 49 -- O.J. Simpson

No. 48 -- Pete Sampras

No. 47 -- Edwin Moses

No. 46 -- Eric Heiden

No. 45 -- Bill Tilden

SportsCenter of the Decade: 1950s

No. 44 -- Bobby Jones

No. 43 -- Julius Erving

No. 42 -- Sandy Koufax

No. 41 -- Wilma Rudolph

No. 40 -- Lawrence Taylor

No. 39 -- Walter Payton

No. 38 -- Ben Hogan

No. 37 -- Mickey Mantle

SportsCenter of the Decade: 1960s

No. 36 -- Oscar Robertson

The Greatest Coaches of the Century

No. 35 -- Secretariat

Most Influential People in Sports

Greatest Dynasties

No. 34 -- Lou Gehrig

No. 33 -- Mark Spitz

Greatest Games

No. 32 -- Johnny Unitas

No. 31 -- Bobby Orr

No. 30 -- Larry Bird

SportsCenter of the Decade: 1970s

No. 29 -- Arnold Palmer

No. 28 -- Red Grange

No. 27 -- Jerry Rice

No. 26 -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

No. 25 -- Joe Montana

No. 24 -- Sugar Ray Robinson

No. 23 -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

No. 22 -- Joe DiMaggio

SportsCenter of the Decade: 1980s

No. 21 -- Gordie Howe

No. 20 -- Ty Cobb

No. 19 -- Martina Navratilova

No. 18 -- Bill Russell

No. 17 -- Magic Johnson

No. 16 -- Ted Williams

No. 15 -- Jackie Robinson

No. 14 -- Hank Aaron

No. 13 -- Wilt Chamberlain

No. 12 -- Carl Lewis

No. 11 -- Joe Louis

No. 10 -- Babe Didrikson

No. 9 -- Jack Nicklaus

No. 8 -- Willie Mays

No. 7 -- Jim Thorpe

No. 6 -- Jesse Owens

No. 5 -- Wayne Gretzky

No. 4 -- Jim Brown

No. 3 -- Muhammad Ali

No. 2 -- Babe Ruth

No. 1 -- Michael Jordan

SportsCenter of the Decade: 1990s

Yogi Berra

Derek Jeter

Brian Piccolo

No. 50 - Chris Evert

Joe DiMaggio

Willie Mays

Billy Martin

Don Larsen

Season 1

Alonzo Mourning

Documentary

SportsCentury

ESPN Classic

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

SportsCentury is an ESPN biography program that reviews the people and athletic events that defined sports in North America throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

In 1999, ESPN counted down the Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century, selected from North American athletes and voted on by a panel of sports journalists and observers, premiering a new biography highlighting each top athlete every week throughout the year. The episodes for the top two athletes, Michael Jordan and Babe Ruth, appeared on a special combined edition broadcast on Christmas Day on ABC. The top two names were announced in no particular order, and the final positioning was announced at the conclusion of the two episodes. An additional list of numbers 51-100 were announced on the ESPN SportsCentury website. Themed specials such as Greatest Games, Greatest Coaches, Greatest Dynasties, and Most Influential Individuals were premiered throughout the year, as well as six SportsCenter of the Decade programs.

After the initial run was complete, the episodes were rerun at various times on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Classic. The original plan for the series was to expand to include #51-#100. Ultimately, the series featured nearly every athlete from #51-#100, and numerous other personalities, especially those who were recently deceased, or notable for more recent accomplishments.