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Fewer than 70 athletes are known to have played in both Major League Baseball (MLB) [a] and the National Football League (NFL). This includes two Heisman Trophy winners (Vic Janowicz and Bo Jackson) [1] and seven members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Red Badgro, [2] Paddy Driscoll, [3] George Halas, [4] Ernie Nevers, [5] Ace Parker, [6] Jim Thorpe, [7] and Deion Sanders). [8]
Due to the frequency and distance of their home runs, the Bash Brothers were a popular attraction in every American League city. [20] McGwire became the first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs in each of his first four seasons (1987–1990), [21] and Canseco led the majors in homers for the second time with 44 in 1991.
Jeff Samardzija – played high school football, basketball, and baseball. All-American wide receiver at Notre Dame. Mike Shannon – was thought to have been a better college football quarterback than a baseball player, but baseball paid more money back then. He was Missouri High School Player of the Year in both football and basketball his ...
"Bo Knows" was an advertising campaign for Nike cross-training shoes that ran in 1989 and 1990 and featured professional baseball and American football player Bo Jackson. It was also used as an advertising campaign for EA Sports' Madden NFL 22. Jackson was the first athlete in the modern era to play professional baseball and football in the ...
Failla was recruited out of North Allegheny Senior High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania by the University of Notre Dame, where he was a two-sport athlete, playing shortstop for the baseball team, and backing up starting quarterbacks Rick Mirer and Kevin McDougal on the football team for three years, from 1991–1993.
It easily the duo's best combined mark since they went 22-4 in 1998, when FSU lost to Tennessee in the BCS national title game and FAMU lost to Western Illinois in the NCAA Division II quarterfinals.
The two were the ultimate dynamic duo for the Chicago Bulls, dominating basketball in the 1990s. Jordan was a scoring machine, and Pippen was a defensive power force.
Benjamin Franklin "Buck" Belue (born December 12, 1959) is an American sports radio host and former professional football and baseball player who played both sports at the University of Georgia from 1978 to 1981.