Phillies' Justin Crawford is good — but dad Carl Crawford's 3-sport history is insane
Carl was an all-time kind of athlete.
Phillies' Justin Crawford is good — but dad Carl Crawford's 3-sport history is insane originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Justin Crawford is seizing some early headlines for the Philadelphia Phillies , including with his first career walk-off hit.
And most Phillies fans at this point know that Justin is the son of four-time MLB All-Star Carl Crawford. But what many don't realize is just how incredible an athlete Carl Crawford was. In high school, Crawford had a scholarship offer to play point guard at UCLA.
He had scholarship offers to play quarterback at USC, Oklahoma and Nebraska, too. In the end, Crawford chose baseball, and that worked out OK. thanks to a post I saw earlier I’m down a Carl Crawford rabbit hole.
This dude was such a freak athlete that his options coming out of HS in 1999 were: - 52nd pick in MLB draft by Devil Rays - QB at Nebraska/Oklahoma/Florida/USC - PG at UCLA what. the. hell.