Sherron Collins, whose Kansas basketball jersey No. 4 hangs in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse, showed about 1,500 fans he’s pretty proficient in another sport — softball — on Saturday afternoon at sweltering T-Bones Stadium.
Collins, a 5-foot-11, 220-or-so pound dynamo — he starred in baseball, basketball and football at Chicago’s Crane High School — blasted three home runs and a single and knocked in seven runs during Frank Mason’s Charity Softball Game to benefit Children’s Mercy Kansas City and the National Youth Foundation.
“I love baseball, almost like I love basketball,” said the 31-year-old Collins, who said it was “amazing” getting a chance to play in former KU guard Mason’s softball game.