The next year, he was out of baseball, per MiLB.com ... Before he became a Super Bowl-winning, Hall of Fame quarterback, John Elway was a star outfielder at Stanford. Selected in the second ...

A top prospect in the draft inevitably will refuse to play for the team that is poised to take him. That happened in 1983, when quarterback John Elway didn't want to play for the Baltimore Colts. His ...

because he feared it would mean John Elway leaving. But the subsequent "Elway Rule," officially the franchise tag, quickly also became "the prison tag," as one agent put it. Since 1998 ...