Amateur Career
Smalley attended and played college baseball at the University of Southern California. While at USC he was a part of the 1972 and 1973 College World Series championship teams. He was named an All-American and received All-College World Series honors in 1973. Smalley was drafted four times by Major League baseball teams between 1970 and 1973 without signing. After being selected by the Montreal Expos in the 35th round of the June 1970 draft, he was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 4th round of the January 1971 draft, by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2nd round on the June 1971 draft, and again by the Red Sox in the 5th round of the January 1972 draft. Smalley was the number one overall pick in the January 1974 amateur draft by the Rangers.
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Famous quotes containing the words amateur and/or career:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
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—Barbara Dale (b. 1940)