I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I played sports in high school and in college.
I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.
I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.
I played sports growing up in high school.
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.
I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .
It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.