Urban renewal

This grainy image may best sum up the brief baseball career of this swing-and-miss batter, whose two-year stay in the low minors for the Atlanta Braves mercifully ends 41 years ago.

Worry not for the batter, then a 19-year-old shortstop from Ashtabula, Ohio, who turns 60 years old today.

You see, the batter – a career .182 hitter in only 44 pro games – eventually changes professions, goes into football and wins a couple of national college championships.

The batter?

That would be Urban Meyer.

“I just wasn’t good enough," Meyer tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2014.

“I was a really good high school football player. I was doing OK my second year (in pro baseball), and then I had an injury to my arm. But I had already probably maximized my ability.” Well, at least in baseball.

Urban Meyer, in his second career, at Ohio State