Yankees general manager Brian Cashman used to play second base for the Cardinals. The Catholic University of America (CUA) Cardinals, that is — not the redbirds in St. Louis. He was pretty good, too.
During Cashman’s college years in the mid-to-late eighties, CUA’s athletic programs competed in Division III, but the Cardinals’ baseball team faced its share of Division I opponents each season. Cashman and his CUA teammates regularly faced the baseball teams at Georgetown and George Washington University, two Division I schools located nearby in DC.
Cashman held his own against them.
In fact, before CUA baseball coach Ross Natoli promised Cashman that he would be able to start as a freshman, the Yankees GM had plans to attend Tulane, where he felt he had a shot at making the baseball team as a walk-on.