Baseball’s top Latin American players — Felix Mantilla, Roberto Clemente, Tony Oliva, Cookie Rojas, Juan Marichal, Zoilo Versalles, Vic Davalillo and Leo Cardenas — pose before on the field before the 1965 All-Star game. (Herb Scharfman/SI)
BACK IN THE DAY |4/3/89| Ken Griffey Jr makes his MLB debut with the Seattle Mariners.
Illustration by Benjamin DeRosa
Instead, the Mets drafted Steve Chlicott with the first overall pick of the 1966 draft. Reggie went to the A’s. To this day Chilcott and Brien Taylor (Yankees, 1991) are the only first overall picks to never play a game in the bigs.
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