It’s been 20 years since Bo Jackson’s rookie season with the Royals. My key Bo baseball memories:
- that mammoth home-run in the All-Star game, and
- an inside-the-park home-run that he ran in like Olympic sprinter-time.
Here’s that great Nike commercial.
My favorites:
* watching that Seattle Seahawks game in some dorm with a couple of the guys from the football team and all of us silently standing up on that play where he accelerated past everyone
* watching him with the White Sox in ’92 maybe and realizing he was playing professional baseball even though he was crippled
Did you know that Dick Schaap had him as his #1 athlete of the 20th Century on that stupid ESPN list?