San Mateo-born Tom Brady led the New England Patriots to the Super Bowl five times (won 3, lost 2) and has been named the league- and Super-Bowl MVP on multiple occasions.
Vallejo High graduate CC Sabathia won the Cy Young award and signed a seven-year $161 million contract with the New York Yankees in 2009. That is the largest contract ever granted to a pitcher.
The latest successful Northern California export is Jeremy Lin, who played basketball at Palo Alto High. Stanford didn't try to recruit him, and Jeremy became an economics major at Harvard, where he was an all-Ivy basketballer in his junior and senior years. Undrafted by the NBA, he played occasionally in 2010 for the Golden State Warriors, who waived him in 2011. When the New York Knicks' starting guards couldn't play because of injury and family tragedy, Jeremy led the Knicks to victory over the Nets and Jazz. Two games do not a season or career make, but the signs are promising.
Mark 6:3-4 "Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor."
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