Tom Brady spent his college football days at the University of Michigan. Interestingly, Brady was also a great baseball player and was drafted in the Major League Baseball draft by the Montreal Expos before deciding to move forward with football instead. Brady was a part of the 2000 NFL Draft...
(1.422), breaking marks he set in previous years. Despite getting only 373 at-bats, Bonds still managed to blast 45 homers and drive in 101 runs. Previously, the oldest baseball player to win an MVP Award was a 39-year-old Willie Stargell, who split the award with Keith Hernandez in ...
You know you’re getting older, becoming a real grown-up, when you realize you’re the same age as Major League Baseball players. Then it dawns on you that players your age are considered “grizzled veterans.” And then, eventually, there’s no one your age who is still active in MLB...
In 1989, 75 years after it opened, Daytona Beach's City Island Ballpark was named after Jackie Robinson. This rechristening was in honor of the events of 1946, when Robinsonplayed at City Island Ballparkduring Spring Training. This marked his first appearance as an active player in the Brookl...
delaying his professional career, Dropo starred as a three-sport collegiate athlete who was courted by the NFL’s Chicago Bears and drafted by the Providence Steamrollers to play basketball before a 1947 tryout with the Boston Red Sox resulted in his signing as a professional baseball player. ...
Jeremy HellicksonandTony Sipp. The total 2019 commitment to those five players was $21.5 million. The club continued to go down the old road as the season evolved, adding 42-year-old relieverFernando Rodney(baseball’s oldest roster needed baseball’s oldest player), 32-year-old infielder...
(1.422), breaking marks he set in previous years. Despite getting only 373 at-bats, Bonds still managed to blast 45 homers and drive in 101 runs. Previously, the oldest baseball player to win an MVP Award was a 39-year-old Willie Stargell, who split the award with Keith Hernandez in ...