Joshua Gibson Booty was born on April 29,1975 and is an American former professional baseball and football player.
23 Facts About Josh Booty
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Josh Booty's father Johnny was an All-American high school football player as well at Shreveport's Woodlawn High School, and was the athletic director at Evangel Christian.
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Josh Booty was one of the founders of the Evangel school that turned into a football factory.
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Josh Booty was named the USA Today Offensive Player of the Year and was named the National High School Player of the Year by at least six associations, including Parade and the Football News.
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Josh Booty was the starting shortstop for the US Junior Olympic National Team that won the silver medal.
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Josh Booty won a silver medal in the 1993 US Olympic Festival.
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Josh Booty was the 5th pick overall in the 1994 Major League Baseball Draft by the Florida Marlins.
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Josh Booty was the fifth pick in the first round of the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.
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Josh Booty spent five years in the Marlins organization, hitting a career.
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Josh Booty hit 20-plus home runs in single and double A minor league stops and was voted the Minor League Defensive Player of the Year in 1997 for the Portland Sea Dogs.
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In 2013, Josh Booty spent spring training in Arizona with the Arizona Diamondbacks as a knuckleball pitcher after winning MLB Network's reality show The Next Knuckler.
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In 1999, Josh Booty went to Louisiana State University to play football for LSU's football team.
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Josh Booty signed with LSU in February 1994 to play football for then-coach Curley Hallman, but instead signed a baseball contract.
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Josh Booty beat out two future NFL draft picks, Craig Nall and Rohan Davey, for the starting job.
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Josh Booty sat out the next game against No 11 Tennessee because of a rib injury.
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Josh Booty started at quarterback for LSU for the rest of the season:.
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Josh Booty finished his sophomore season with 2,121 passing yards, which at the time was the third-best performance by a sophomore in school history behind Jeff Wickersham in 1983 and Tommy Hodson in 1987.
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Josh Booty was taken as the 177th pick of the 2001 NFL draft by the Seattle Seahawks.
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Josh Booty signed with the Cleveland Browns in 2001 but was waived in 2003.
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One of Josh Booty's younger brothers, Abram, was a wide receiver at LSU, Valdosta State University and a Cleveland Browns wide receiver in 2001.
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Josh Booty's son, Parker Fulghum, is a wide receiver for Clemson.
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Josh Booty was formerly the spokesperson for TrueMRI in Beverly Hills, California, and has been involved with numerous radio and television commentating work in sports, including Sirius, Fox Sports, ESPN Radio.
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Josh Booty won the MLB Network reality show "The Next Knuckler", hosted by former Boston Red Sox players Tim Wakefield and Kevin Millar.