Roger Staubach, Baseball Star??

trripleplay · 01-19-2003, 04:21 PM

I was browsing through a local antiqu mall the other day and came across some colelge baseball memorabilia. This made me a bit giddy, since you don't see much collegiate baseball stuff in places like that.

Among the things I bought were some old copies (1964) of Collegiate Baseball newspaper. One issue contained a story about Roger Staubach, who was a hotshot quarterback for Navy at the time. This article, though, talks about Staubach the baseball star.

I knew all about John Elway being drafted by both MLB and the NFL, but had never heard this about Staubach. Imagine: Roger the Dodger?

Anyway, I tried to attach the scanned article and photo to this post, but it didn't take. You can however, see it on my website at SimmonsField.com

Max Power · 01-19-2003, 06:03 PM

Not uncommon: Ken Stabler must of been a decent HS pitcher too: http://www.netshrine.com/vbulletin2/...hlight=stabler

How would Roger have done? Well, he could have been the next Jay Schroeder or the next Kirk Gibson............Josh Booty?

We'll never know............

WiredTiger · 01-20-2003, 10:01 AM

I think that Staubauch was such a good athlete that he could probably have succeeded no matter sport he chose. Baseball is no sure bet though. Drew Henson is probably one of the best athletes I have seen and he's still struggling.

pwdennis · 01-20-2003, 10:05 AM

Roger was good at several sports although football & baseball were his two best. I doubt that he made a mistake in choosing football, especially with a known upcoming four year layoff

KCBOOMER · 01-20-2003, 02:33 PM

Roger was a stud.

pathogan · 01-21-2003, 03:30 PM

,...he misses that time and comes back to play BASEBALL at the level he played football,which is Hall of fame...he'll be intersting to watch in the next 5-10 years,with all the concussions he had,we'll see the cumlulative effect.Look at poor al toon...

01-19-2003, 04:21 PM	#1
trripleplay NetShrine All-Star Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Columbia, MO Posts: 114	Roger Staubach, Baseball Star?? I was browsing through a local antiqu mall the other day and came across some colelge baseball memorabilia. This made me a bit giddy, since you don't see much collegiate baseball stuff in places like that. Among the things I bought were some old copies (1964) of Collegiate Baseball newspaper. One issue contained a story about Roger Staubach, who was a hotshot quarterback for Navy at the time. This article, though, talks about Staubach the baseball star. I knew all about John Elway being drafted by both MLB and the NFL, but had never heard this about Staubach. Imagine: Roger the Dodger? Anyway, I tried to attach the scanned article and photo to this post, but it didn't take. You can however, see it on my website at SimmonsField.com __________________ "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." [Rogers Hornsby]

01-19-2003, 06:03 PM	#2
Max Power NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: May 2002 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 5,548	Not uncommon: Ken Stabler must of been a decent HS pitcher too: http://www.netshrine.com/vbulletin2/...hlight=stabler How would Roger have done? Well, he could have been the next Jay Schroeder or the next Kirk Gibson............Josh Booty? We'll never know............ __________________ Steve, Forum Administrator "They come and they go, Hobbs. They come and they go." That's why there's NetShrine.com

01-20-2003, 10:05 AM	#4
pwdennis NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Winter Springs, FL Posts: 2,503	Roger was good at several sports although football & baseball were his two best. I doubt that he made a mistake in choosing football, especially with a known upcoming four year layoff __________________ "I would submit that if the world survives for a million years, perhaps its finest hour may be that in the last half of the 20th century, when the power to blow up the world rested in the hands of a few men in two very unsophisticated and suspicious countries, we didn't do it, and one American, Richard Nixon, moved the cold war away from permanent confrontation toward victory. How could any wrong that he did compare with that?" - John Sears

01-20-2003, 02:33 PM	#5
KCBOOMER NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Home of the T-Bones Posts: 11,116	Roger was a stud. __________________ KCBOOMER *Buck O'Neil: The Monarch of Baseball*

01-21-2003, 03:30 PM	#6
pathogan william Blake's Innkeeper Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 2,828	No way ,...he misses that time and comes back to play BASEBALL at the level he played football,which is Hall of fame...he'll be intersting to watch in the next 5-10 years,with all the concussions he had,we'll see the cumlulative effect.Look at poor al toon...

01-20-2003, 10:01 AM	#3
WiredTiger Guest Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The city of Kaline, Cobb and Greenberg Posts: 3,395	I think that Staubauch was such a good athlete that he could probably have succeeded no matter sport he chose. Baseball is no sure bet though. Drew Henson is probably one of the best athletes I have seen and he's still struggling.

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