Baseballin' rappers

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I know Buck 65 was scouted by the Yankees and Diverse, the Chi-town rapper, played college baseball. Are there any other baseball playing rappers I should know about? Lots of basketballers but baseballers?

― Matty L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

deion sanders

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

MC Hammer

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet. Any info on what they both rapped/played?

― Matty L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

MC Hammer was an obscure Oakland rapper/producer....He's best known for producing records for Ace Juice and Oaktown 357.....he was a bat boy for the A's, and got his name for his resemblence to "Hammerin'" Hank Aaron.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

nelly was a serious prospect who tried out for a couple of major-league teams.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

rockers that were/are good at baseball:

Vince Neil
Robert Pollard
Scott Weiland

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

you sure about pollard? i thought basketball was his specialty.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

you sure about pollard? i thought basketball was his specialty

According to this Magnet article I found online, he was a 3 sport athlete star in HS (baseball, B-ball, and football)...but he's known for throwing a NO-HITTER at Wright State - the first in school history, according to indie rock lore.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Weiland and Neil were more HS jocks...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Prime Minister Pete Nice is a baseball historian

― mucho, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm new here but you guys are incredible. Hooking it up!!!

― Matty L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

interesting about pollard. i wonder if he tripped up the batters by subjecting to them to tirades about superchunk and pavement and his wife between pitches. i'm a fucking pitcher. fucking stephen malkmus is a fucking belly itcher. strike two!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the band members in stars was a minor league baseball player.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Crooklyn Dodgers nyuk nyuk

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine Pollard on the mound, sipping his Budweiser between pitches, ciggarette hanging off his lip...then....doing the fake Roger Daltry kicks between pitches.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

the world already has one David Wells

― asl, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

how tall is Robert Pollard? (and am i wrong for feeling like A. Miccio should take up the reins and start his own GBV?)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread has been done a couple times on ILM and once on I Love Baseball.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

Flavor Flav, although he played the other baseball.

― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

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