Years Before Patrick Mahomes Hit a Bell Ringer for Charity, Tom Brady Lit Up Fenway Park With a Bomb

It’s no surprise that many league players excel at different sports. The Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes, notable in the list of good athletes, is an avid golfer who boasts a handicap of 7.7. The QB recently put his golf skills to the test in The Match tournament, to raise funds for the No Kid Hungry campaign, aimed at ending hunger and poverty. Alongside his fellow teammate Travis Kelce, he went on to notch a victory against the formidable Golden State Warriors. 

Another remarkable athlete in the league would be the former QB Tom Brady. He was a left-handed hitting catcher at Junípero Serra High School in San Mateo, California, and he was selected by the Montreal Expos in the 18th round of the 1995 Major League Baseball Draft. The QB did not pick the slot and chose to dedicate himself to his favorite sport football. However, there is material in the archive to get a glimpse into the NFL star’s baseball skills.

Home run at Fenway Park

In an old video initially dug up by NESN, a young Tom Brady, who was only a one-time Super Bowl champion at the time, is seen taking his hacks at Fenway Park, before a Red Sox game back in 2003.

 ”You could never get me out of that batting cage. I was one of those guys one more one more one more”, Brady gushes about his love for baseball.

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He was doing decently well however unsuccessful at hitting one out yet. But on a final pitch, Brady managed to lift one to the right, down the line past Pesky’s pole, impressing Nomar Garciaparra who was watching the whole thing go down.

Former Expos scout John Hughes, who drafted Brady still recalls the moment.“I never had as much fun scouting a player that we eventually didn’t sign. We knew we didn’t have a good chance to sign him, because he had the scholarship (to play football for the University of) Michigan.”

He further added, “He was very talented. I mean on talent alone he would have been projected a late second-round pick…And I believe he would have made it, as a catcher, he would have gotten there.”

Hughes remembers Brady as a ‘good athletic body’ and did see a future for him in baseball. However, if circumstances were different, would Brady have taken that road?

The path Brady didn’t take

While the former QB certainly enjoyed basketball, he did not see a future in it. In his appearance on the Dan Patrick Show, when the host inquired Brady where he would have been if he stuck with baseball, Brady said  “I’d be selling insurance, man. Baseball was not my sport,” He chuckled. ”I loved it ….football was the one I chose for a reason’.Although I did love baseball growing up ..it was a great sport..once I started playing football it was game over.” he added.

When Brady called it quits on his football career, he also holds the credit of being the last active professional athlete to be drafted by Expos.

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