Frank Thomas
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'm done.
Went up, took a shower, went home.
That was unbelievable.
It really was.
I'm done for the day.
He was a hell of a player.
Some days he couldn't get out of his own way, but I'm telling you, what a ball player who cared about playing the game of baseball.
That really hurt me in 86, not getting drafted.
I was the best player in the area, and six or seven guys in the area got drafted.
I had no idea what happened.
I was the biggest, strongest, fastest.
I already had signed a football scholarship at Auburn University.
I guess they thought back then –
Big guys like me didn't play baseball.
Tight end.
Yes, they were like a football player playing baseball.
I remember talking to late Cam Bonifay and Cam said, you know, at the time I thought you were just a football player trying to play baseball.
I knew you could hit the ball consistently and hard, but, you know, didn't think you would end up being a baseball player.
You already signed that football scholarship.
We passed.