Thirty years ago plus one week, multi-sport start Bo Jackson hit his first home run in a KC Royals uniform. But, just any old home run wouldn’t do. Not for Bo Jackson. For the former college Heisman Trophy winner, it had to be the longest home run ever hit at Kauffman Stadium.
It was really the first of a long string of crazy highlights that come.
Bo Jackson shocked the sports world when the first pick of the 1986 NFL Draft turned down the NFL to play baseball with the defending World Champion Kansas City Royals.