Casey Bond

Casey Bond (born October 5, 1984) is an American actor, film producer and retired professional baseball player. He is most noted for playing Chad Bradford in the 2011 film Moneyball. Before becoming an actor, Bond played as an outfielder for the MLB team San Francisco Giants.

Bond attended Birmingham–Southern College and Lipscomb University, playing college baseball for both schools, before he was drafted by the Giants in 2007. After playing in minor league baseball for two seasons, the Giants released Bond in 2009. Rather than continue to pursue his baseball career, Bond chose to become an actor. In addition to Moneyball, Bond has appeared in Nashville, Ring the Bell, Undrafted, My Many Sons, I Saw the Light, Gene Simmons Family Jewels and various other films and commercials.

Baseball career

Bond was raised in Peachtree City, Georgia. He attended Starr's Mill High School in Fayetteville, Georgia. He then enrolled at Birmingham–Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama, where he played college baseball for the Birmingham–Southern Panthers baseball team, competing in the Big South Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I. After his junior year at Birmingham-Southern, the school's president decided to move the Panthers' athletic programs from Division I to Division III, which required the team to take a hiatus for a season. This ultimately ended the baseball program at Birmingham-Southern as most players left to find a new program where they would be able to continue their college careers.