This will come as a shock to many, but Steven Anthony has elected to foregoe his promising baseball career, and instead play hockey for his major junior team.
In some older news, it looks like Sault Ste.Marie's first round pick (3rd overall) will in fact report. Before the draft his father wrote the Greyhounds telling them that they should not draft him because he would not report because the long travel would impact his schooling. I guess only time will tell, but I don't like it when players give up education and put all their eggs in the pro basket. Let's hope this works out for him.
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Ask Tommy Glavine, who was not quite the hockey prospect BUT were it not for baseball he definitely would have gone in the first round, and possibly even the first American picked his year ... If he regrets giving up Hockey for baseball. An unequivocal NO. But Blake Bellefeuille to this day wishes he had continued to pursue baseball although it is a mystery to me why he stalled out in the AHL when the fact of the matter is if you put him on a line with a playmaker and a scorer he could be a top six forward for any team in the NHL, just look at his track record at Boston College. I wish Anthony luck ... One organization in either baseball or hockey WILL undoubtedly work a provision into his contract to pay for college if he eventually decides to go, so in effect he is only closing a door - potentially - on a sport, but not on an education if he still wants one.
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