1965 Major League Baseball Draft
- 1965 Major League Baseball Draft
The First Year in which a draft took place for Major League Baseball
First Round Selections
"*" Did not sign
Background
In Major League Baseball's first Free Agent Amateur Draft, the Kansas City Athletics selected Arizona State sophomore Rick Monday as the number one pick. Kansas City also chose 10 future major leaguers, including Sal Bando (6th round) and Gene Tenace (11th round), building the base for the Athletics' championship teams of the early 1970s.
A total of 813 players were selected. Some of the more significant picks were catcher Johnny Bench by the Cincinnati Reds and pitcher Nolan Ryan by the New York Mets in the second round, and infielder Graig Nettles by Minnesota in the fourth round. The first player to reach the majors was pitcher Joe Coleman, the Washington Senators' first pick and third pick overall. Two players fall in the category of the ones who got away -- Los Angeles selected pitcher Tom Seaver in the 24th round only to have him return to the University of Southern California campus, and Baltimore chose catcher Carlton Fisk in the 37th round, but was unable to sign him. In fact, of the 70 players the Orioles selected, only three eventually played in the big leagues. [cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/draft/index.jsp?feature=decade1960s|title=Background on the 1965 MLB Draft|accessdate=2008-07-16 ]
Other notable players
*Amos Otis, 5th round, 95th overall
*Hal McRae, 6th round, 117th overall
*Darrell Evans, 13th round, 241st overall
External links
* [http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/1965/Round-1-1.shtml Complete draft list from "The Baseball Cube" database]
References
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