Pitcher Pat Mahomes, father of Kansas City Chief quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, earned all-state honors as a football quarterback in high school and averaged 30 points per game in basketball. On the baseball field, he played shortstop and pitched.

He received scholarship offers to play all three sports at the University of Arkansas. However, he opted to play pro baseball when he was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in 1988 and made his major league debut in 1992.

Mahomes played for the Red Sox in the bullpen for parts of two seasons when he was traded to the Sox from the Twins in August 1996 for minor leaguer Brian Looney.

He appeared in his first game for the Red Sox in Oakland, pitching one inning at the end of a 7-0 loss to the A's. On September 4th, he was the pitcher of record when the Sox came from behind to beat the Mariners in Seattle, 7 to 5. Mahomes pitched 12 1/3 innings in relief during 1996 for the Sox with a 6.62 ERA.

The following year on April 2nd, in Anaheim, Mahomes came in with the score tied in the eighth inning. The Sox scored four runs in the ninth and he got the win, 6 to 5. In ten games with the Red Sox in 1997, he had an 8.10 ERA when he was released in July.

Mahomes went on to play in Japan in 1998 and came home to sign with the Mets in 1999. One of his most notable career moments was a two-way stint that helped the Mets shut down the Chicago Cubs in August 1999. He knocked in the winning run in the top of the 13th. Then went to the mound in the bottom of that inning and shut down the Cubs, 5 to 4.