Today's Chicago Sun-Times has an interesting piece on the Chicago White Sox and GM Kenny Williams's love of quarterbacks. He signed Mitch Mustain, the former Arkansas and Southern Cal QB who hasn't played baseball in eight years. Williams went after Joe Borchard, QB at Stanford; Josh Fields, QB at OK State; and Clayton Richard, who was a quarterback at Michigan. And, of course, the Sox have Adam Dunn, who was an All-State QB as a high schooler in Texas. He went to the U of Texas, but when Chris Simms decided to ditch one U of T (Tennessee) for another, Texas, the Longhorns staff wanted Dunn to move to tight end. Dunn saw that tight ends have to block defensive ends, and he decided to take the Cincinnati Reds' millions as a second-round MLB pick.
The Sun-Times also reported that Bill Veeck signed Bobby Douglass after his football-playing days. Douglass pitched in four games in the minors, with a 0-13 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
I don't remember that Richard played at Michigan. He was a backup to Chad Henne, though I remember Matt Gutierrez being the backup.
