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Reggie Jackson was the second player chosen in the 1966 draft. He might well have gone first, his coach at ASU informed him, had the New York Mets not been put off by a line in his scouting report that said he had a white girlfriend. Instead, the Mets took a catcher named Steve Chilcott, who injured his shoulder and never made it off the farm, leaving Jackson to Charlie Finley,
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
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