Basketball and Baseball careers

[MacDice]

I grew up playing against Mark Hendrickson. He was a year a head of my at our big rival school. For whatever reason I always had good luck at the plate against him (everybody else seemed to have no problem getting me out).

[ALR-bishop]

Good story, Mac

[David W]

In the 90's Football/Baseball was common, with Brian Jordan, Deion Sanders, and Bo Jackson being quite proficient at both sports.

I just looked at Deion's baseball stats, and they are really pretty good. He led the league in triples one season.

The Basketball/Baseball thing seems to have died out.

[novakjr]

Larry Doby played some professional basketball too.
http://www.blackfives.org/baseball-h...ro-basketball/

[ALR-bishop]

Interesting about Doby. The focus of the article was players who played MLB and in the NBA or it's predecessor . Mike M had pointed out previously that Gibson played briefly for the Globetrotters.

Are there Globetrotter basketball cards, and if so does Gibson appear on any?

[Volod]

If not mistaken, Fergie Jenkins also had a very brief stint with the Trotters. Must have been a tempting gig for those guys in the days of 10 grand salaries doled out by the Baseball magnates.
Incidentally, Al - wonder what kind of uproar would follow a comment like Rickey's these days...probably equivalent to Stirling's recent remarks. But then, the comment would make no sense these days...and Stirling's made even less.