Super Bowl: Miami Marlins' Jim Fleming recalls Tom Brady the baseball player

 
BY RYAN ABER, Staff Writer, raber@opubco.com
Published: February 4, 2012

Looking back now, Jim Fleming admits Tom Brady made the right decision.

Brady will start in his fifth Super Bowl on Sunday for the Patriots against the Giants and is in the discussion of the best quarterbacks of all time.

In the mid-90s, though, Fleming tried to talk Brady, a tall, left-handed hitting catcher, out of continuing his football career.

Fleming, now the Miami Marlins ' special assis...


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