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Originally Posted by actionjackson

Well lookie lookie who showed up in my 1947 (The Year of Jackie IRL) amateur draft. "Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston." Lifted from board member mitchkenn's signature without permission (hope you don't mind mitchkenn!). Thanks also to Sir Spritze for his wonderful High School database. This is a loaded draft as Sam Thompson, Ned Williamson, Jesse Burkett, Al Orth, and Andy Pettitte also showed up.

Well, the Pittsburgh Pirates had the first pick and the ninth pick overall, and with those two picks, they managed to get a 20 year old Jesse Burkett for LF and a soon to be 24 year old Sam Thompson for RF. Whoa! I play with the "Use pre-defined draft value for AI" box checked because I think it disperses players from best to worst a little better than it would without it.

The Yankees picked 10th and 11th and took Andy Pettitte and Robb Nen. Oscar Charleston was taken 2nd by the Washington Senators, Al Orth 3rd by the Boston Red Sox, and Ned Williamson 12th by the St. Louis Cardinals. Like I said, a doozy of a draft.