Will Tim Tebow Join These Notable Athletes In Playing Pro Football And Baseball?

Tim Tebow isn’t the first ex-professional football player to try to make it in Major League Baseball, and he likely won’t be the last.

There’s no questioning Tebow’s athletic ability — he arguably is one of the greatest college quarterbacks of all time — but life in the NFL was a different story for his throwing motion.

So now he’s turned his sights toward baseball, as he hopes to play professionally in both sports, much like Jim Thorpe, Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders did.

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