David Soul (born David Richard Solberg in Chicago, Illinois)

Soul teamed up with Paul Michael Glaser in the role of Hutch as part of
the famed duo Starsky & Hutch on ABC television (1975 to 1979). He
studied political science when he was 19 years old and later turned to 
music. Soul was offered a professional baseball contract in 1962 to play
for the Chicago White Sox, but he turned it down.