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- Then he rushed for 950
- yards during the 1989
- NFL season and was
- named to the Pro Bowl.
- Bo became the first player
- since Willie Mays to hit a home run and steal
- a base in an All-Star Game. He was the first
- running back in NFL history to run more than
- 90 yards for a touchdown two times.
-
- In January 1991, during a Raider game
- against the Cincinnati Bengals, Bo seriously
- injured his left hip when he was tackled. He
- received hip-replacement surgery. His
- doctors felt that he would never be able to
- play baseball or football again. Bo retired
- from the NFL, but he promised his mother
- before she died that he would play
- baseball again.
-