Mar 15, 2021
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When I was young, baseball players were like teachers to me, in that it was hard to imagine them doing anything other than their job. In the same way that I imagined my teachers living and sleeping in their classrooms, at age 10 or so I couldn't really conceive of a baseball player's life off of the field. So when I saw Jack McDowell's 1992 Pinnacle baseball card for the first time, I was a little dumbstruck.
If you've never seen it, the card features McDowell in a killer early â90s vest strumming a guitar in some kind of live venue. And when I saw it back then, I couldn't imagine anything cooler than a pitcher who also played in a rock band. The back story on McDowell is that an injury a few years prior had given him more time to devote to his musical interests.