Ryan Hockensmith<\/a> reported on a 2011 game in which the 6’7″ Judge was selected first overall by senior infielder Danny Muno for the Bulldogs’ annual touch football game despite being just a freshman.<\/p>\n“I’ll take Big Ass,” Muno said while announcing what turned out to be an excellent pick.<\/p>\n
According to Hockensmith, Judge caught a wide receiver screen on the first play and juked his way right through the entire defense for a touchdown.<\/p>\n
“What was that?” head coach Mike Batesole exclaimed. “He’s Barry-freaking-Sanders out there.”<\/p>\n
Fresno State first baseman Jordan Ribera said, “He made someone just about tear their ACL, then went 40 yards for a touchdown as he juked out everybody else. You don’t think someone that size can move like that.”<\/p>\n
Judge led his side to victory as the MVP and seemingly announced himself as an athletic star in the making.<\/p>\n
Of course, he ended up sticking with baseball and is now one of the faces of his generation with a resume that includes three American League MVPs, an AL Rookie of the Year, seven All-Star selections, five Silver Sluggers and a batting title.<\/p>\n
The New York Yankees slugger has 385 career home runs and has shown no signs of slowing down considering he leads the American League with 17 long balls this season.<\/p>\n
When he is eventually inducted into the Hall of Fame, his plaque will undoubtedly list all of those accomplishments from the baseball diamond while highlighting his accolades as a Yankees legend.<\/p>\n
But some of his former Fresno State teammates will surely always remember him best as the Barry Sanders-esque big man who was torching the defense in their touch football game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s safe to say Aaron Judge made the right decision to pursue baseball at a professional level, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-331637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}