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Watch: Former Notre Dame safety Julian Love has his high school number retired

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It didn’t take Nazareth Academy too long to decide that their former star, [autotag]Julian Love[/autotag], needed to have his number retired.

The former [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] safety and current Seattle Seahawk went back to La Grange Park, Illinois over the weekend to be present at the ceremony. The school is not short of having plenty of elite talent go through their doors, the currently have multiple of their former players at Power Five programs.

Love obviously has gone on to accomplish a good amount after his career at Nazareth. A consensus All-American in 2018 and a fourth round draft pick of the New York Giants was quite a start. It’s a career many would be jealous of and that was enough for the defending state champions to retire his number.

Take a look below as Notre Dame Football’s twitter shared a behind the scene look at Love being inducted into Nazareth’s Hall of Fame.

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Hall of Famer Jim Thome coaching baseball at HS where his son plays

These days Thome splits his time between several jobs.

Jim Thome played in the major leagues from 1991-2012, earning five All-Star nods and a trip to the Hall of Fame for his trouble.

While Thome is mainly known for his time with the Cleveland Indians, he later played for several other teams in the latter half of his career, including the Chicago White Sox. That’s where Thome and his family eventually settled despite a few more stops before his retirement.

These days Thome splits his time between several jobs. The list includes serving as the special assistant to White Sox general manager Rick Hahn, the president of the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association and coaching baseball where his son Landon plays second base at Nazareth Academy High School, according to Mike Clark at the Chicago Sun Times.

Thome says Landon works extremely hard:

“I try to simplify it for him, I’ve got to say he works extremely hard. And as his dad, I’m really, really proud of him. He’s a young kid that really loves to play the game and has been given an unbelievable opportunity around a ton of great players.”

While he’s yet to achieve the slugger level his father did in MLB, Landon is batting .330, with 25 RBI and eight doubles for the defending Class 3A champion Roadrunners.

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