60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
6/7/66 – In what has to be one of Major League Baseball's biggest "What The Heck Was I Thinking?" moments, The New York Mets passed on Reggie Jackson in this years draft and selected instead Antelope Valley HS catcher Steve Chilcott as their #1 pick.
(All together now ... "WHO?!?!?!")
The story is priceless ...
https://www.amazinavenue.com/2020/8/10/21360910/mets-prospect-retrospective-c-steve-chilcott
