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Sportshistory: Major League Baseball's Number 1 Draft Picks

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Sportshistory: Baseball   Baseball is known as America's favorite sport, and it is played from childhood to high school, to the college level, and professinally in the Major and Minor Leagues. The culminating event in professinal baseball is the World Series. Baseball is also very popular in Latin America and in Japan. Below is a listing of Major League Baseball's Number One Draft Picks from 1965 to the present. Major League Baseball's Number 1 Overall Picks   Year -Player Position-Team Drafted by   2009 Stephen Strasburg, RHP Washington   2008 Tim Beckham, SS Tampa Bay   2007 David Price, LHP Tampa Bay   2006 Luke Hochevar, RHP Kansas City   2005 Justin Upton, SS Arizona   2004 Matthew Bush, SS San Diego   2003 Delmon Young, RF Tampa Bay   2002 Bryan Bullington, RHP Pittsburgh   2001 Joe Mauer, c Minnesota   2000 Adrian Gonzalez, 1b Florida   1999 Josh Hamilton, of Tampa Bay   1998 Pat Burrell, inf Philadelphia   1997 Matt Anderson, p Detroit   1996 Kris Benson, p Pittsburgh   1995 Darin Erstad, of-p California   1994 Paul Wilson, p New York (N)   1993 Alex Rodriguez, ss Seattle   1992 Phil Nevin, 3b Houston   1991 Brien Taylor, p New York (A)   1990 Chipper Jones, ss Atlanta   1989 Ben McDonald, p Baltimore   1988 Andy Benes, p San Diego   1987 Ken Griffey Jr., of Seattle   1986 Jeff King, if Pittsburgh   1985 B.J. Surhoff, c Milwaukee   1984 Shawn Abner, of New York (N)   1983 Tim Belcher, p Minnesota   1982 Shawon Dunston, ss Chicago (N)   1981 Mike Moore, p Seattle   1980 Darryl Strawberry, of New York (N)   1979 Al Chambers, of Seattle   1978 Bob Horner, 3b Atlanta   1977 Harold Baines, of Chicago (A)   1976 Floyd Bannister, p Houston   1975 Danny Goodwin, c California   1974 Bill Almon, if San Diego   1973 David Clyde, p Texas   1972 Dave Roberts, if San Diego   1971 Danny Goodwin, c Chicago (A)   1970 Mike Ivie, c San Diego   1969 Jeff Burroughs, of Washington   1968 Tim Foli, if New York (N)   1967 Ron Blomberg, 1b New York (A)   1966 Steve Chilcott, c New York (N)   1965 Rick Monday, c Kansas City A's

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