High School
Blomberg attended Druid Hills High School, earning four letters each in baseball, basketball, and track, and graduated in 1967. He was an all-star in baseball, football, and basketball. He is the only athlete ever chosen for the Parade All-America teams in football, basketball, and baseball.
He received 125 basketball scholarship offers, and John Wooden, the basketball coach at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), paid him a recruiting visit. Roger Couch, Blomberg's basketball coach, said: "Blomberg is the finest basketball player I ever saw — high school or college." He also received 100 football scholarship offers.
Blomberg was selected by the Yankees in the first round (1st pick) of the 1967 amateur draft, and signed for $75,000 ($523,000 today). He attended DeKalb Junior College part-time, and later majored in psychology at Farleigh Dickinson University.
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