two sports professionally. But that’s hardly a trump card. Harper is far better at baseball than Ainge was at anything, and who’s to say that Harper wouldn’t have been a great football player (or whatever) if he hadn’t been such a baseball phenom?

They’re both phenomenal athletes but determining who is more athletic based only on the extent to which they decided to specialize isn’t the full story. Especially when Harper is a five-tool player and it’s not like he’s some one-dimensional player who does only one thing well.