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Who are the 11 players to have played in the NBA and MLB?
There are more that have been drafted to the NBA and MLB butonly 11 have played both, can you name them?
Pasta: you are close but not quite there, one guy is still in the Majors
Utterchaos99 has it.
If you look at the list of guys drafted by bothit is impressive...Hendrickson was drafted by the sixers and with the next pick the sixers drafted Ryan Minor another MLB guy. Very interesting stuff!
4 Answers
- Utter ChaosLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
1-Danny Ainge http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/aingeda01.shtm...
2-Frankie Baumholtz http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/baumhfr01.shtm...
3-Chuck Connors http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/connoch01.shtm...
4-Dave DeBusschere http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/debusda01.shtm...
5-Ron Reed http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/reedro01.shtml
6-Gene Conley http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/conlege01.shtm...
7-Cotton Nash http://www.baseball-reference.com/n/nashco01.shtml
8-Mark Hendrickson http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hendrma01.shtm...
9-Dick Groat http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/groatdi01.shtm...
10-Steve Hamilton http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hamilst01.shtm...
11-Dick Ricketts http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/rickedi01.shtm...
Just found another guy.
12-Howie Schultz http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/schulho01.shtm...
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/schu...
--Deion Sanders never played pro basketball.
--Jim Thorpe was 58 years old when the NBA was formed in 1946.
--Bill Sharman was on the Dodgers roster at one time but never played in a baseball game.
--Lots of other baseball players played professional basketball before the NBA/BAA was formed like Jim Thorpe, Lou Boudreau, Del Rice, Bucky Harris, George Crowe, Don Grate and many others.
- dick_acheLv 61 decade ago
Gene Conley won championships in both
Dave DeBusschere
Frankie Baumholtz
Chuck Connors
Danny Ainge
Ron Reed
Steve Hamilton
Cotton Nash
Jim Thorpe-----------did play professional basketball, it was just for a small league 20 years before the NBA formed
Bill Sharman
Mark Hendrickson
Chuck Connors
Dick Groat
Good Question.......got my mind of work for a while
- 1 decade ago
Dave DeBusschere
Frankie Baumholtz
Chuck Connors
Danny Ainge
Ron Reed
Gene Conley
Cotton Nash
Deion Sanders
Jim Thorpe
- 1 decade ago
Danny Ainge for one.
Jordan played minor league ball but never got the call up. One of the very few instantly good things that came out of the 1994 strike, not having to watch Mike stumble about the Comiskey outfield.
