Toi Fitzgerald Cook (born December 3, 1964) is an American former professional football player who was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the eighth round of the 1987 NFL draft.
Before his NFL career, he was an outfielder, and the leadoff hitter, on Stanford's 1987 College World Series national champion baseball team.
[4] On April 12, 1985, Cook hit a line drive off the University of Arizona's big league left-handed pitching prospect Mike Young.
[5] Cook was the Defensive MVP of the 1986 Coca-Cola Classic, a regular-season National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college football game played in Tokyo, Japan.
[7][8] Cook was selected by the Minnesota Twins in the 38th round of the 1987 MLB June Amateur Draft from Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA), but chose to play NFL football.
After turning down a million-dollar contract offer from the Cincinnati Bengals because he didn't think they could win, he played for only the league minimum of $162,000 but won the Super Bowl with the 49ers.
He returned to San Francisco as an NFL game analyst for KRON, and then co-hosted ESPN radio shows.
[3] Amarantus Appointed Super Bowl Champion Toi Cook to the Board of Advisors in September 2012 to the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Program[11] Cook was the Executive Vice President in the Sports Division at the Gersh Agency in Los Angeles from 2004 to 2006.