An excerpt from Jeff Pearlman’s new book details when Bo Jackson wanted to kill Kevin Seitzer.
“Bo!” screamed Bob Schaefer, the first-base coach. “Bo! Bo! Let him go! Bo!”
Jackson wasn’t listening. He was overcome by rage. Too much Kevin Seitzer. His arms, Schaefer recalled, seemed to be growing in thickness by the second. The veins bulged from his left bicep.
“The harder I squeezed, his eyes rolled back in his head,” Jackson said. “And the harder they pulled on me, the stiffer my arm got.”
By now Seitzer’s feet were off the ground.