Kyle Long is genuinely enjoying retirement. The 31-year old has started a total of 76 games in his seven-year NFL career but many people don't know that baseball was actually one of Long's first loves.
Long played both baseball and football at St. Anne's-Belfield School in Charlottesville, Va. and was a physically imposing prospect who White Sox Senior Adviser to Scouting Operations Doug Laumann—who the White Sox director of amateur scouting at the time—stated: "looked like Paul Bunyan."
On a scouting trip in the summer of '07, Laumann saw Long turn heads with stuff that was 95-96 mph from the left side of the plate.