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Originally Posted by skinsfanthru&thru
and just think, football was Bo's secondary sport. i can't imagine how much of the record books would hold his name at the top if he had devoted himself more to football than baseball and hadn't suffered his freak hip injury. i didn't know he'd held out his first draft and then got drafted by the raiders in the 7th round the next year. i don't know much about some of the older drafts but that had to be the biggest steal of a 7th round pick in the history of the draft. and he has to be considered one of the best all-around athletes of all time when u consider that in 1989 he hit .256/32 HRs/105 RBIs/26 stolen bases and named the allstar game mvp and then in the same year he ran for 950 yards/4 TDs and was named to the probowl while only playing in 11 games. it's hard enough to be an allstar quality player in one sport much alone 2 and in the same year.
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A good friend of mine I grew up with and played ball with since we were little kid's is the player who ended bo's carreer, MLB for cincci. Kevin Walker, from the great football town of west milford NJ, where I might add our own lenny friedman is from as well.