Minor Leagues
Hearn was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the fourth round of the 1978 Major League Baseball Draft. After four seasons in their organization in which he failed to reach higher than the double A level, he was released by the Phillies on 7 January 1983. However he was soon signed as a minor league free agent by the New York Mets.
Hearn would spend most of 1983 with the Single-A Lynchburg Mets before being promoted to Double-A Jackson, batting .274 with five home runs and 49 RBI between the two clubs. In 1984, he led the Jackson with a .312 batting average and tied for second with eleven home runs. He would earn his promotion to Triple-A in 1985, spending the whole season with the International League's Tidewater Tides.
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