Found July 26, 2009 on
Bleacher Report:
Just five days shy of Major League Baseball's trade deadline, the New York Yankees made sure to stir up the market, as they made a move that would forever go down in history.
In a bi-sport trade, the Yankees acquired Drew Henson from the Detroit Lions in exchange for C.C. Sabathia, Brett Gardner, and $4 million in cash.
The trade went down in the early evening of Sunday, and it was cleared by Major League Baseball and the National Football League later in the night.
"This is a project we have been working on for quite some time, and we think that we can really transform the way people look at sports in general," said Bud Selig and Roger Goddell in a joint statement.
The NFL and MLB are joining together to create a program they are calling "Borrowers of the Future." The goal of this program is for players of one sport to be able to accomplish their dream of playing the other sport.
The program was started when both leagues looked at players such as Bo Ja...
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