A two-sport star at Junipero Serra High in San Mateo, California, Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos as the 507th pick in the 18th round of the 1995 MLB Draft. The 17-year-old, left-handed-hitting catcher may have been destined for football, but that didn’t stop him from stressing out the draft-day wait.
“You get pretty anxious,” Brady said in a commemorative video posted by the New England Patriots on the anniversary of the draft on Friday. “I remember being downstairs for the fourth round. Then that came and gone. And then the fifth round was coming and going.