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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

 

2011 Gerrit Cole, RHP Pittsburgh

 

2010 Bryce Harper, RF Washington

 

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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