After the BP session, he wanders back to the locker room, quietly telling a Norfolk Tides employee that he'll happily sign a ball once he gets back to his locker and answers a few questions. He speaks softly, eyes down, discussing his return to baseball, where he's played just 25 games as a professional in the last four years. Baseball America will be taking a more in-depth look at this phenomenon in an upcoming issue. But back to Deion. It's a lot of energy built up for one game a week.
Baseball is an everyday grind.
Returning to his other job as one of the most celebrated defensive backs ever to play in the NFL, Sanders has jumped from the Atlanta Falcons to the San Francisco 49ers to the Dallas Cowboys to the Redskins in search of more Super Bowl rings. He has two so far. While he was at Florida State playing both sports for the Seminoles, the Yankees drafted him in the 30th round in 1988, and he signed. He eventually made the big leagues with New York, but he moved on to the Braves when he started playing football with the Falcons. He eventually became the first player ever to play in both the World Series and the Super Bowl, the first ever to hit a home run in the majors and score a touchdown in the NFL in the same week.