Twenty-two years ago today, on June 2, 1995, the Montreal Expos selected a 6'3", lefty-hitting catcher with a big bat out of Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California, in the 18th round of the MLB draft.
General manager Kevin Malone said he "took a flier." The kid was probably headed to football instead.
The flier failed. Brady would choose football at Michigan instead of the Expos and go on to a football career that is the stuff Canton is made of. But his potential baseball career remains one of sport's all-time "what ifs.