Tim Tebow’s baseball tryout draws mixed reviews

LOS ANGELES, USA – Tim Tebow‘s stab at switching from the football gridiron to big league baseball drew mixed reviews of both his mastery and motivation.

A former Heisman Trophy winner as the top collegiate player who briefly sparked “Tebow-mania” during his playing days with the NFL’s Denver Broncos, Tebow is attempting a sports comeback at the age of 29.

He last played baseball in high school, but attracted 46 scouts from 28 major league teams to a workout on Tuesday, August 30 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Tebow showed power at the plate batting against two former major league pitchers. One American League scout told USA Today the exercise was a “complete waste of time” although a National League scout told the newspaper Tebow was “better than I expected”.

Critics called the entire exercise a publicity stunt by a player who found limited success in the NFL, becoming a celebrity in part for his evangelical views and a widely imitated kneeling move that became known as “Tebowing.”

Tebow, who has been working lately as a television commentator, insisted otherwise.

“The goal would be to have a career in the big leagues,” he said. “I mean that’s the goal, right?” – Rappler.com