Former NFL quarterback Tom Brady’s baseball recently sold for $158,600 in an online auction through the site Goudin.
Yes, you read that right, perhaps the greatest quarterback in NFL history who sold for six figures despite never playing a second of professional baseball.
Brady played catcher when he was in high school and was drafted by the Montreal Expos (now Washington Nationals), but opted to accept the football scholarship offered to him by the Michigan Wolverines instead.
The front of the card featured Brady wearing an Expos uniform slamming his hand into a catcher’s glove with a small smile on his face, while the back featured his scouting report.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion recently appeared in an ad that poked fun at the hypnotic universe of whether Brady had chosen to pursue a baseball career instead of a football career.
In the opening scene of the ad, Expos fans sitting in a Montreal sports bar reminisced about Brady’s glory days with the team.
A signed Tom Brady baseball card recently sold at an online auction for $158,600
On the back of the card was Brady’s scouting report from when he played in high school
Fans remembered how Brady won three MVP awards, racked up seven World Series victories, hit 650 home runs and kept the franchise in Montreal as the cameras flipped through newspaper clippings, signed memorabilia and trophies as relics of his incredible tenure.
Hall of Famers and former Expos stars Larry Walker, Pedro Martinez and Vladimir Guerrero also reminisced about Brady’s greatness.
In the alternate universe, the Trio responded to a car commercial starring Brady, mocking his two losses to the Giants.
The piece referenced Brady’s Super Bowl losses to the New York Giants in 2008 and 2012. But in this case, Brady let down his fan base during two World Series meetings against the San Francisco-based MLB team.
A card similar to the one sold was recently included in an advertisement for baseball cards
The clip ends with Brady’s alarm going off at 12:12 a.m., referencing Brady Day, as the retired quarterback wakes up from the dream.
It’s followed by a shot of Brady’s Expos card with the words “What Could Have Been Could Be Yours” on the right.
Brady is far from the only successful NFL QB selected in the MLB Draft who chooses a career on the playing field instead of the diamond.
Dante Culpepper, Colin Kaepernick and most recently Florida State transfer quarterback DJ Uiagalelei were drafted by MLB teams but instead decided to keep their talents on the football field.