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Originally Posted by The Rick
I have a Bo Jackson story that for some reason, doesn't get a lot of press.
At a Royals game one time, I swear I saw Bo snag a line drive to left field on the run, backhanded, with his bare hand.
We all just kind of went  . |
Bo was so amazing, a lot of his feats go relatively unnoticed. I was working as a food vendor in the stands when he had his first outfield assist, gunning the Twins Mickey Hatcher out at third when Hatcher was trying to go from first to third on a single to right field. I've been to hundreds of major league ball games and there is typical pattern to the cheering when the home team's outfielder has made a throw that has a chance to nail a runner. When Bo made that throw, the cheering started like that and then, for a moment, the stadium got very quiet while the fans registered the flight of a ball thrown so deadly hard and straight from so far away, then as the glove was applied and the runner was called out, the cheering resumed and boomed. Bo had just been called up and everyone was talking about his prodigious batting practice home runs. The intense fans knew that he was supposed to have a great arm. But when all of the fans in Royals Stadium that day actually saw that cannon in action, it was so dazzling that it caused stunned silence.