Kyler Murray is about the closest thing we have to a legitimate two-sport athlete today. The Oklahoma quarterback and Heisman Trophy contender was selected with the ninth pick in this year’s baseball draft by the Athletics. However, even with his success on the football field, he will report to Oakland in 2019 and presumably only play baseball from here on out.
Nearly 100 years ago, one Yankee pulled off the reverse.
After serving in World War I, Hinkey Haines became a star athlete at Penn State in the early 1920s. He played on the baseball, football, and basketball teams, all to some degree of success.