Tim Tebow, on the first pitch he saw against the St. Louis Cardinals instructional league team, hit an opposite field homer today in minor league play. This hit just adds to the larger-than-life idea of Tebow. When being an NFL quarterback didn’t work out, he would try his hand at baseball. The fact he hadn’t played since junior year of high school was not a worry for the 29-year-old.
In Tebow’s at-bat he faced the St. Louis Cardinals’ 11th-round pick out of Vanderbilt, John Kilichowski. Last year in Class A ball, Kilichowski posted a 2.