does anyone know where on the internet i can find old draft info? i know baseball america sells a book going back to 65, but i'm impateint. somone out here must have the answer ,as this is the most knowledgable baseball group ever , thanks in advance

Deuce,

Baseball America has created a "Baseball Draft Almanac". I think it costs about $40.

You can see recent draft info in many places - but for historical draft info - the Almanac has it.

deuce...Ask the websters for a specific year; player; school; etc.

That will get us started until you send the $40.00 and get the book.

thanks for the info, the players name is tim hopley,89 to 93 most likley very late rounds, from u me. or someplace up north, i'll be looking for a reply untill i get my book

thanks you guys are awsome

deuce...He's an assistant football coach at Portsmouth, NH, High School. Home of the Clippers.

Call him on Monday and get reacquainted.

thanks beenthere, i know who and what he is ,but what i don't know is if, and what round he was drafted in. he' also the varsity baseball, and girls varsity coach. and one heck of a nice kid.
thanks

...CALL HIM ON mONDAY AND ASK HIM.

deuce...

Is coach telling you he was drafted?
...sounds like a little George O'Leary
embellishing to me....

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chill, yes he did, but for my own curiousity i'm lookinganyway, great guy good coach or so i'm told, not looking for any GOOD reason justlooking thanks for everyones insight , and to been there read all the post before you pull a nutty, makes you look like p#@$% head

deuce...Gees, interesting "closing" remark. I did read your entire post.

Maybe you didn't have the $ .50 to make the call. But then again, maybe you are a "nutty".

Beenthere

I took your suggestion to call him and ask him to mean you did not see his name anywhere...
Is that right?

If so deuce, I would ask him:
1. What year he was drafted
2. What college he attended
3. Who was his college coach
4. What team drafted him
and
5. In what round....

When he tells you, come back and share, will ya?

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bbscout,
Any chance you could check on a couple players for me?
1. Mike Lambert
Rumor was that he was drafted by Minnesota in '74 in a high enough round to be offered a bonus. I believe he ended up attending UCLA. Gerakos thought he remembered him from UCLA but wasn't certain.

2. Steve Benson ('75)
I know he was in the Astro's organization at one point but don't know if he was drafted or worked his way in through the independent leagues.

Both went to Culver City HS.

Thanks,
CADad

Thanks "Bob", however the draft information for the 70's on baseball cube is quite limited. A second rounder we played against shows up but none of the later round players. It looks like the older stuff is only players that made it to the bigs or were very early round picks.

Still searching for Mr. Hopley...
Everywhere I look it comes up:
Name not found.
Hmmmmmm.

Deuce, you ask him???

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CADad, When my new book gets here, I will let you know. Lambert did not letter at UCLA......I checked.

bbscout,
Thanks.
CADad

chill,. didn't ask ,looked didn't findout anything . i'm told that he was 2 or 3 players after piaza,baseball ammerica has nothing.asked around nothing really don't want to embases the guy ,just something i wanted to find out.no ya know what i meen? thanks for the help

CA Dad - I've got the Baseball America Draft Almanac and Michael Lambert was drafted In the Regular Phase of the June draft in 1974. He was the 4th round pick of the Minnesota Twins. He was drafted out of Culver City HS in Calif.

broor,
Thanks for the info. Our '73 Legion team had Gorman Heimueller (pitched for the A's), Lambert and myself as a pitching staff. I threw the middle innings between the two harder throwing lefties until we got to the playoffs. Steve Benson was also on our Legion team. We lost to Hawthorne in the playoffs. I remember Mike Scott was on Hawthorne's HS team and I think he played for the Legion team. They had another player named either Mike Coburn or Scott Coburn that we thought was more likely to make it to the bigs than Mike Scott. He threw about as hard as Mike Scott and was also a power hitting catcher.

I also got a chance to play for an Angels scout team when they mistook me for Lambert (same first name, same HS) and then stayed with the team because the coaches were looking to win (as opposed to looking for prospects) a little more than they probably should have.

A little addition here. I used the baseball cube to check and Mike Colbern was a 1976 second round pick out of Arizona State. It looks like he was selected a few picks ahead of Mike Scott who was picked out of Pepperdine in 1976. Colbern ended up playing a couple seasons at catcher with the White Sox.