Deion did enter the previous night's Braves game as a late inning defensive replacement, so he did play in a NFL and MLB game in a 24 hour span. Sanders, who recently was named head football coach at FCS level Jackson State, says he is working to produce a documentary about that day. Says he will name the person who denied him the chance to play that night in Pittsburgh (manager Bobby Cox?).
The next Sunday Deion skipped his Falcons game, and played in that day's Braves playoff game. At FSU legend has it that Deion played in a baseball game and ran in a track meet at the same time. Sanders has a son on scholarship at South Carolina, a cornerback.
Speaking of multi-sport athletes: I recently came across a photo of Syracuse basketball player Jim Brown, who earned All-America status at Syracuse in both football and lacrosse. He also ran track and decathlon. Jackie Robinson played football, baseball, basketball, and ran track at Pasadena Junior College and UCLA.
At the Carlisle Indian School, Jim Thorpe ran track, played football, baseball, and lacrosse, and won the 1912 intercollegiate championship in ballroom dancing.
Deion and Bo Jackson played football and baseball and ran track in college. So did Red Grange. Herschel played football and ran track.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-10-12-1992286130-story.html
http://www.espn.com/30for30/film/_/page/deionsdoubleplay
Isaiah 55:6-13 Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Birthday and other deals I cashed in on in August and September.
savings/date
06.00 8.01 CiCis Pizza buffet
99.99 8.15 FitBit
50.00 8.14 WalMart gift card
11.00 8.04 Ruby Tuesday burger & tots
16.00 8.10 Big Daddy's Burger & tots
02.00 8.11 Taco Bell Doritos taco
10.00 8.11 Firebirds burger & tots
30.00 8.13 Jackson Associates Focus Group
10.00 8.14 Zaxbys meal
20.00 8.14 Panera Bread sweepstakes gift card
01.00 8.15 RaceTrac free coke
10.00 8.18 Steak & Shake burger & fries
12.00 8.25 Red Robin burger
03.00 8.18 Taco Bell slushy
08.00 9.08 Moe's burrito
06.00 9.10 Chickfila sandwich and shake
05.00 9.00 Chickfila chicken biscuits
07.00 9.00 Cold Stone Creamery bogo
04.00 9.00 Steak & Shake milkshake
311.00 total
TY COBB [SABR Bio] his death inspired a New York University economics professor to drive 75,000 miles around the country and interview turn-of-the-century baseball players. In the preface to The Glory of Their Times, NYU's Lawrence Ritter wrote, "I first thought of this book back in 1961, when Ty Cobb died in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of seventy-four. It seemed to me that someone should do something, and do it quickly, to record for the future the remembrances of a sport that has played such a significant role in American life." In his final season he lost a point off his career batting average. Years after his death, he lost another point. Through 1927, Cobb was hitting .368: 4,077 hits in 11,076 at-bats. His final-year .323 average dropped it to .367. Years later, baseball researchers calculated that Cobb's hit totals had been double counted for a 1910 game, among other anomalies, dropping his average to .366. (This also means that Pete Rose passed Cobb's hit count earlier than the date when it was celebrated). Years after retirement he confessed to "LIFE" magazine that his team had hired a spotter to pick up the opponents' catcher's signs and signal them back to their batters. The "spy" was used during the years when the Tigers' home field was Bennett Park.
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