Tim Tebow belts a triple in 3-hit game: Is a promotion next?

New York Post ^ | April 27, 2017 | y Post Sports Desk

[conservative98]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tim Tebow looks like he’s learning to hit. Could a promotion be next?

Tebow tripled — on a headfirst slide — and singled twice, scoring two runs as the Single-A Columbia Fireflies beat the Asheville Tourists 5-0 on Wednesday.

It was Tebow’s third multihit game since Friday, as the 29-year-old followed up on his best week in the minors with more consistency at the plate. In his past six games, Tebow is batting .450 (9-for-20).

“There are some guys who do really good who get taken away from me halfway through the year,” Fireflies manager Jose Leger said, according to The State. “Then there are guys that get taken away really early. It is hard to predict when it happens. A lot depends on what is happening in the level above. Whenever they decide it, he will be ready. He is just working hard, and we are going day by day.”

[dp0622]

Best I found was drafted by three sports coming out of college.

Some guy in college played four sports.

Doesn’t look like ONE guy ever played 3 pro sports.

[BBB333]

Dieter Ruehle played for the Los Angeles Kings, Lakers and now plays for the Dodgers.

Quite a great organist!

[mewzilla]

Love the pic at the article. Look at the expression on Tebow’s face. There’s a reason that guy puts butts in the seats. God bless him!

[2nd amendment mama]

Darn. Not that familiar with the structure of farm teams, etc. Thanks very much for the info.

[MarvinStinson]

Jim Thorpe

One of the best football players ever

Olympic Decathlon champion

Olympic Pentathlon champion

Professional football player

Major League Baseball player

Professional basketball player

Professional boxer

After Thorpe won the decathlon and pentathlon at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, King Gustav V of Sweden told Thorpe: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world."

Jim responded, “Thanks king."

"He was the greatest athlete who ever lived.... What he had was natural ability. There wasn't anything he couldn't do. All he had to see is someone doin' something and he tried it ... and he'd do it better."
-- 1912 Olympic silver medalist Abel Kiviat

Future President Dwight Eisenhower, who played against Thorpe's Carlisle [American Indian} football team in 1912, recalled of Thorpe in a 1961 speech:

"Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed. My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw."

Someone stole his shoes just before he was due to compete at the 1912 Olympics, so he found some discarded ones in a rubbish bin and won his medals wearing them. He is shown in a 1912 photo wearing two different shoes and extra socks because one shoe was too big.

When it was found that Thorpe had played a few semi professional baseball games before he was in the Olympics. the pompous Olympic Committee had Thorpe's Olympic gold medals taken away and his name removed from the record books.

"Jim was very proud of the great things he'd done. A very proud man....Very late one night Jim came in and woke me up. ... He was crying, and tears were rolling down his cheeks. `You know, Chief,' he said, `the King of Sweden gave me those trophies, he gave them to me. But they took them away from me. They're mine, Chief; I won them fair and square.' It broke his heart and he never really recovered."
----Chief Meyers, Thorpe's roommate and catcher for the New York Giants

[Neoliberalnot]

Without doubt, Thorpe was the greatest natural athlete to draw breath. I recall how he became a track star. He had never ran track, until one day he happened by the HS track where they were having a race. He joined them on the track after the race had started and beat them all with ridiculous ease. Imagine what he would have achieved today with all the advanced training techniques. God let his soul rest in peace, because we know and remember his achievements.

I think I recall his gold medals were later restored when it was too late.

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[discostu]

Last I heard he was hitting 280, against minor league talent, so no probably not getting promoted.

[xrmusn]

Shame of it is that today, especially since he is NA, he could say his name is Suzy and compete with the girls....

PROGRESS?????????????????????????????????

If PROgress is moving ahead,

What does that make

CONgress?

[xrmusn]

Dieter Ruehle played for the Los Angeles Kings, Lakers and now plays for the Dodgers.
Quite a great organist!
= = = = = = = = = = = =
But NOT the first

Gladys Gooding, Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Knicks and NY Rangers in the same year;

Eddie Layton and Jack Shaindlin played for the New York Yankees, Knicks and Rangers in the same season.

[mountn man]

I remember seeing a movie of Jim Thorpe, shown in jr high school.

Did a lot of reading of him back in the day.

Thanks for reminding me.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Thanks for a great piece of history, Marv. Thorpe was a REAL “Iron Man”

[MarvinStinson]

I think I recall his gold medals were later restored ...

---

AFTER HE WAS DEAD.

[Tallguy]

Probably less. With modern athletic selection, training and nutrition there is less separating the elites one from another. And mastery of more than one sport is excedingly rare given the training commitments.

Just take baseball. Pitchers tend to be among the best athletes on their teams until about HS. Some of them lead their teams in batting and play in the field when not on the mound. That can’t continue as you progress through the levels. The time commitment to mastering new pitches, learning the hitters, etc. Pretty much precludes taking BP.

[semimojo]

He’s batting .246 in Single A.