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Two-sport athletes are not uncommon, think about Deion Sanders, Bo Jackson, even back to Jim Thorpe.

In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson remembers another two-sport athlete who passed away this year after playing professional basketball and excelling as a Major League Baseball player.

Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, co-author with his son Stephen, of The Slide: Leyland, Bonds and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates and the editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader.