As a young man, Urban Meyer dreamed of playing professional baseball, so it's no surprise that he's taking his chance at throwing out the first pitch under the lights of Yankee Stadium so seriously.

Two days after an unexpected appendectomy, Meyer told Tim May of the Columbus Dispatch that he still intends on giving it the ol' college try tonight at as the Yankees host the Baltimore Orioles at 7:05 p.m.

The Ashtabula native played two years of minor league baseball for the Atlanta Braves before hanging up his spikes and moving into coaching football, which seems to have worked out for him so far.