Biggio’s Trip to Cooperstown

With Biggio getting elected to the Hall of Fame, we discovered a couple of great articles on his early years.  In this Wallace Matthews ESPN piece, he tells about Biggio’s remarkable football career in high school, which included a game that’s make JJ Watt jealous.  He rushed for 224 yards & 3 touchdowns, threw an option pass for another TD & caught a nine-yard scoring pass, all in the first half.  Biggio accounted for 40 of the team’s 46 points.

In this Alyson Footer SportsonEarth feature, we get the story about Biggio’s move from catcher to 2nd base.  Biggio said, “It was probably 95 percent of the people out there, the experts, who said it was never going to work.  I tried to take that motivation that I had from all of those people who said it wasn’t going to work and turn that into, ‘It’s going to work.'”