I doubt it. Baseball players do tend to get longer careers with guaranteed contracts. And it’s a short list of players who really and truly had the option to be both. Certainly football has higher wear and tear, but all sports beat you up pretty bad. Look at Tiger Woods, do you really think he’s going to be walking unaided in his 60s?
Sure there is wear and tear in all sports. Like you said, catchers get beat up over the course of a career, especially of a few decades ago.
But it’s not a question of if you truly had the option to go pro in both sports, it’s wishing you were good enough in the other to go with that one instead. I’ve only ever seen retired football players say they wish they could have hit the curve ball and been baseball players, not retired baseball players saying they wish they could have perfected the techniques of the offensive line or whatever.
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