Table of Biography
Vincent Edward “Bo” Jackson is a late American baseball and football player. Bo Jackson is the single professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star in both baseball and football and one of the few to do so in two major sports. Similarly, Bo Jackson’s elite talent in multiple sports has given him a reputation as one of the greatest athletes of all time.
Early Life and Childhood
Vincent Edward Jackson was born on November 30, 1962, and raised in Bessemer, Alabama. His mother is Florence Jackson Bond and his father is A.D. Adams. The eighth of ten children, Bo Jackson, and his siblings were largely supported by his mother. His family named him a “wild boar hog”, as he would constantly get into trouble.
He attended school in McCalla, where he rushed for 1,175 yards as a running back as a high school senior. Likewise, Jackson scored twenty home runs in 25 games for McAdory’s baseball team during his senior season.
He remained a two-time state champion in the decathlon. Both times that he was the decathlon state champion, he built up such a commanding points lead before the 1500 meters that he never competed in that event.
Bo Jackson – Net Worth 2023
Jackson had earned a huge amount of money in his entire career and had a net worth estimated at $16 million. He reportedly earns around $400k to $600k annually.
Career and Professional Life
Bo Jackson was selected with the first overall pick of the ‘1986 NFL Draft’ by the ‘Tampa Bay Buccaneers’, but opted to play baseball for the ‘Kansas City Royals’. He further played football with the ‘Los Angeles Raiders beginning in 1987. 1990 was by far the best year of his career in terms of performance. In football, he averaged a whopping 11.3 in Receiving and 5.6 in Rushing. In baseball, he averaged 0.272.
His football career was caught short in 1991 when he suffered a debilitating hip injury while playing for the Raiders. Later in the same year, the ‘Chicago White Sox’ picked him up from the Kansas City Royals. In 1993, Jackson helped them capture the American League West Championship. Deciding to dedicate more time to his family, he retired from baseball following the ‘94 season.
Caption: Bo Jackson and Brooks Koepka in a picture! Source: Golf Digest
Further
Caption: Bo Jackson in NFL Source: Bleacher Report
Hip Injury
Jackson got an injury in his left hip which affected his athletic career.
In his last match, the aforementioned playoff victory over Cincinnati in January 1991, Jackson suffered a dislocated hip following a tackle. In the film You Don’t Know Bo, Jackson insisted that after he discovered the injury, he physically popped his hip back into the socket and in the process damaged the blood vessels supplying blood to the area. While doctors did not see proof that Jackson physically reset his hip, they did discover that there was a fracture of one of Jackson’s hip bones.
Awards and Achievements
Personal Life
Bo Jackson is a married man. Jackson’s wife is Linda who is a clinical psychologist as well as a rehabilitation counselor. They have three children- a son: Garrett, and Nicholas, and a daughter Morgan. Moreover, the family stays at their private home in Burr Ridge, Illinois, US.
Jackson did a 300-mile charity bike ride in 2012 and produced a campaign ‘Bo Bikes Bama’ to support victims of the tornado that badly damaged areas in Alabama. As of now, it has become an annual tradition.
Caption: Bo Jackson with his wife Linda Jackson! Source: Relationship airbrush shirts for couples
Bo Jackson – Social Media
Bo Jackson is available on his Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Similarly, he has more than 81.3K followers on Instagram, more than 210K followers on Facebook, and more than 171.3K followers on Twitter.
Trivia
- Bo Jackson was named after Vince Edwards, the star of his mother’s then-favorite TV show.
- He is labeled as stubborn and hard-headed, he struggled during his adolescence with behavioral problems.
- He is popular for talking about himself in the third person.
- Bo penned his autobiography ‘Bo Knows Bo’ in 1990, co-authored with Dick Schaap. The following book narrates his life from his childhood in Bessemer, Alabama to the peak of his athletic abilities in 1990.