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Late Bloomers: Tony Phillips

Late Bloomers: Tony Phillips

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Mar 21, 2024
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In the history of baseball’s amateur draft, which goes back nearly sixty years, only four players have been drafted from the tiny New Mexico Military Institute. Less than a thousand students attend there, but they have some notable alumni. Roger Staubach spent a year there before going to the Naval Academy. Owen Wilson is an alum. So is Conrad Hilton.

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