Bo Jackson Short Biography

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Vincent “Bo” Jackson, was born in a little town called Bessemer, AL. As he was growing up, he was getting bullied and laughed at by the kids on the block because of his stutter. One day, the kids and Bo were throwing rocks at each other and Bo threw it at a window and broke it, he didn’t stop there. He kept on throwing the rocks at them. The kids that were bullying Bo were scared of him. After that Bo became the bully on the block. Bo got into sports like Football and Baseball to channel out his anger from what the kids did to him. From that he had a great arm for throwing from his childhood, because that gave him the strength to throw really far. He ran so fast that he was lightning fast. When he was in Highschool he played football, he could …show more content…
But as soon as they all heard his pick was the “Kansas City Royals” they were shocked! As Bo went on with his Baseball career with the Royals, he played football for a hobbie. He played for the Raiders during his free time everyone was amazed with that. Bo did many unbelievable things that had to make people watch what he did again to know it was real. Acting like superman getting off the ground to catch a flying ball. During his career with both sports, something traumatic happened to Bo. He had to get a hip replacement. He knew that meant that was the end of his football career. But knowing Bo that wouldn’t stop him. He played baseball with a hip replacement. He was the first baseball player to actually do that. Everyone was amazed with what he can do, nothing really stopped Bo. Everything that Bo Jackson has done, inspire people and make people excited whenever he played. He had a Can Do type of attitude that made people like him. He had cartoons and campaign commercials about him from Nike. Bo is in the Hall of Fame for Baseball and Football. He is a hero to many people with what he can do, he made people think they could do anything like