House of Sparky · Jul 29, 2016
ASU's 50 Best Professional Athletes: No. 25 Bob Horner
We break into the top-25 of our 50 best professional athletes to attend Arizona Stat with the No. 1 overall pick in the 1978 MLB Draft.
If you were asked to describe Bob Horner's amateur baseball career in one word it would be: special. The Phoenix native was originally drafted in the 15th round of the 1975 MLB Draft out of Apollo High School by the Oakland Athletics. Horner chose to instead play collegiate baseball for the Arizona State Sun Devils.
All Horner did in his three seasons in Tempe was lead ASU to a National Championship in 1977, become a two-time All-American (1977, 1978) and win the Golden Spikes Award in 1978.
That season, Horner hit.412 with 25 home runs and 100 runs batted in.