He enrolled at West Virginia University and made the team as a backup quarterback, but returned to professional baseball after playing sparingly for the Mountaineers.

He was the West Virginia high school football player of the year and also set a national record with 14,457 career passing yards.

[1] During his high school years, he spent fall semesters playing football at Nitro and spring semesters playing baseball at Seabreeze High School in Ormond Beach, Florida; he moved each winter with his father, who owns automobile dealerships in the Charleston and Daytona Beach areas.

Despite the missed playing time in 2003, House made his major league debut by appearing in one late-season game for Pittsburgh.

After his baseball career apparently ended, House enrolled at West Virginia University, where he was the third-string quarterback for one season.

House hit his first career home run off Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Jesse Litsch on August 18, 2007.

House returned to the Astros' organization the next season, signing a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training on January 10, 2008.

House did not make the Astros' 2008 opening day roster and on March 19, 2008 was sent back to the AAA Round Rock Express in the Pacific Coast League.

House spent the 2015 and 2016 seasons with the Class A Advanced Visalia Rawhide, earning California League Manager of the Year honors in 2015.