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Originally Posted by Merkle923
Right. Good catch. Could've been worse, I could've called him Ollie Drew (an outfielder).
Confirmation from one of his former minor league teammates that Don Johnson was indeed Tom Seaver's catcher during the latter's one season at USC in 1965. Also that despite the baby face he once cleaned up the floor with a bunch of locals at a bar fight in the Southern League.
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I'm not sure there's any way to be sure of the timing, but I also wonder if Johnson was drafted before the Braves signed and/or lost Seaver. The time line struck me because the Braves drafted batterymates out of a California high school just this past June. This time, they got to keep both.