Getty KANSAS CITY ROYALS OUTFIELDER BO JACKSON MAKES AN OUTSTRETCHED CATCH DURING THE ROYALS GAME. MANDATORY CREDIT: JONATHAN DANIEL/ALLSPORT US
An old scouting report on Bo Jackson – dual sport legend and former Kansas City Royals All-Star – has resurfaced online this week. And more than four decades later, what stands out is not how optimistic it was, but how accurate it proved to be.
The report, written while Jackson was still at Auburn, described him at the time (April 1985) as the “best pure athlete in America today”, and someone who projected to have above-average
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