Never underestimate the value of a good eye. Without a keen batting eye, it's nearly impossible to be a successful hitter in the major leagues. It takes a different type of eye to be successful in the breeding industry, but a good eye is just as crucial when buying mares or yearlings at auction.
Former Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Rocco Baldelli is now the team's first base coach, but lately he also has relied on his good eye to help him buy mares at auction, breed them to stallions, and sell the foals.
Baldelli certainly isn't the first sports celebrity to own horses.