I spent many a night in Royals Stadium and am convinced Bo Jackson is the most over rated player in the history of baseball. He would hit one home run and it would make Sports Center, but the ten strikeouts in between it and his next home run and his floundering play in the field somehow never made the show. I read somewhere that statistically he is the worst clutch hitter in the history of baseball. I personally watched him come to bat in the seventh and ninth innings of the same game with the tying run on base and take six consecutive called strikes and never take the bat off his shoulder. John Wathan was a big catcher. He had more stolen bases than Bo. Mostly because Bo was too lazy to try to work at it. World class speed and couldn't steal a base.
I could go on, but if I see the catch where he runs up the wall one more time, I think I'll puke. I remember sitting in the stands the night he was in left and Flash Gordon was pitching againt Jim Abbot of the Angels. It was in the 8th inning and the game tied 0-0. Some one hit a ball out to Bo. He charged in like a running back about 20 feet. Then he cut to the left, racing like a running back to get to the ball. Then he turned around and started racing back with world class speed as the ball went over his head and landed exactly on the spot he was standing in the first place. It ended up a no out triple. Maybe the most laughable attempt at fielding I have ever seen. The saving grace was that Gordon went on to strike out the side stranding Bo's mistake on third.
I spent years watching Bo. He was all show and no go. Maybe the best football player ever to play baseball, but even that is subject to question.
