There is a case to made that Parker is the greatest all-around athlete to play at Duke.
Maybe the greatest football player ... a great baseball player ... and a good enough basketball player to letter at Duke. He was also a scratch golfer -- in his youth, he beat Sam Snead, the top pro of his era, in a long-driving contest. Later in life, he routinely shot his age.
Not long ago, a Virginia newspaper picked him as the greatest athlete ever produced by Tidewater, Va. -- ahead of such notables as Allen Iverson and Ronald Curry.