Podcast: Incredible inside stories about Michael Jordan's baseball career
Posted Jul 21, 2019
Bill Melton talks about secretly teaching Michael Jordan how to hit before the news broke that he was going to play baseball, Ozzie Guillen tells the story about playing a game of 2-on-1 basketball with Joey Cora against Jordan at a local gym, and Frank Thomas discusses the MJ mayhem at spring training and if Jordan could have made it to the majors.
(NBC Sports)
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