MLBbro Legend Bo Jackson Honored By the Kansas City Royals, Placed In the Team Hall of Fame

Not many Gen Z sports fans remember that Bo Jackson at one time was the greatest athlete in the world, dominating two sports. Not many fans remember that at that time it wasn’t Michael Jordan’s “Be Like Mike” slogan that was on the tongue of fans, but “Bo Knows” (fill in the blank) for his ability to be great in seemingly everything he did in the realm of sports.

But despite being the only professional athlete to be named an all-star in two professional sports (baseball and football), believe it or not, the man is NOT a member of…

 

The Pro Football Hall of Fame, located in Canton Ohio…

Or

The National Baseball Hall of Fame, located in Cooperstown, New York …

Thirty years after playing his final game in the major leagues, this past weekend, the MLBbro athletic prototype known as Bo Jackson got a Hall of Fame induction from the Kansas City Royals. Jackson played five of his eight seasons with the Royals and was named the MVP of the 1989 All-Star Game with this towering “Bro Bomb” that powered the American League to a 5-3 win.

All of this while President Reagan was being interviewed by the legendary Vin Scully…

 

Hip Injury Ends Bo’s Meteoric Two-Sport Rise

 

Unfortunately for Jackson and sports fans everywhere, a hip injury in the 1990 NFL playoffs with the Los Angeles Raiders ended his football career and changed the trajectory of his baseball career. After hip replacement and rehabilitation, the MLBbro icon made history again becoming the first professional athlete to play a sport with an artificial hip. After moving on from the Royals, Bo was named 1993 Comeback Player of the Year before retiring the next year as a member of the California Angels.

 

 

The Royals gave Jackson and his family the “Royal” treatment celebrating his career with a slow car ride to a standing ovation and being presented with a portrait and a Hall of Fame jacket. In one of the classiest family stories of all time, Jackson’s favorite baseball story involved his wife and newborn baby at the time.

 

“Probably my favorite moment…was the day I purposely got thrown out of the game in the first inning,” Jackson said. “I took a pitch right down the pipe, strike three. I knew it was a strike, so I turned around, and I gave the umpire some choice words, and he threw me out the game. I said, ‘Thank you.’

“I went to the locker room, took off my uniform, put my clothes on, got in my car, went down on the plaza and spent the day with my wife and my daughter, who was born that morning …[I] went to the hospital, got into bed with her, with my daughter besides, and we watched the Royals beat the Brewers that day.”