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1906 Amateur Player Draft

While the Winter Meetings lacked luster this year, the lead up to the Player Draft certainly didn't. There was a certain 18-year-old named Ty Cobb that had everyone buzzing during pre-draft workouts ... "He's going to make whichever franchise gets him," several scouts said ...

Cottonwood had the first pick and many thought the Monsoon would tab Cobb, but they went another direction. The first pick of the draft was pitcher "Colby Jack" Coombs, a 23-year-old right hander. Lake Havasu went next, and they too passed on Ty Cobb. When Cobb fell past the third pick (held by Payson), the Tucson Saguaros knew they possibly had the gem that could turn their lowly franchise around...

With the fourth selection of the 1906 amateur draft, the Tucson Saguaros select The Georgia Peach, 18-year-old phenom Ty Cobb... The three players picked ahead of Cobb could be in a trivia question one day (much like the question about who was picked ahead of Michael Jordan in the NBA)...

Here is the full draft list going into the 1906 season:

Round 1:
Cottonwood pick: P Jack Coombs
Lake Havasu pick: P Carl Druhot
Payson pick: P Charlie Smith
Tucson pick: CF Ty Cobb (!!!!)
Yuma pick: P Lefty Leifield
Tempe pick: P Ralph Glaze
Tombstone pick: P Irv Higginbotham
Prescott pick: P Lew Richie
Nogales pick: P Johnny Lush
Jerome pick: P Vive Lindaman
Kayenta pick: P Jim Pastorius
Sedona pick: P Jimmy Dygert
Bisbee pick: P Cy Falkenberg
Flagstaff pick: P Fred Beebe
Phoenix pick: P Charlie Rhodes
Grand Canyon pick: P Roy Witherup

Round 2 :
Cottonwood pick: CF Johnny Bates
Lake Havasu pick: P George Ferguson
Payson pick: P Ed Smith
Tucson pick: P Jack Pfiester
Yuma pick: CF Al Burch
Tempe pick: P Harry Eells
Tombstone pick: 2B Frank Laporte
Prescott pick: RF Red Murray
Nogales pick: P Bill Essick
Jerome pick: P Mike Cunningham
Kayenta pick: CF Harry Armbruster
Sedona pick: 1B Claude Rossman
Bisbee pick: 1B Jim Nealon
Flagstaff pick: P Frank Oberlin
Phoenix pick: CF Roy Hartzell
Grand Canyon pick: P Lou Fiene

Round 3 :
Cottonwood pick: 3B Hans Lobert
Lake Havasu pick: P Rube Kroh
Payson pick: P Charley Hall
Tucson pick: 3B George Moriarty
Yuma pick: LF Dutch Meier
Tempe pick: 2B Harry Niles
Tombstone pick: C Nig Clarke
Prescott pick: 1B Tim Jordan
Nogales pick: 2B John Hummel
Jerome pick: P Jim Moroney
Kayenta pick: LF Tom O'hara
Sedona pick: C Irish Mcilveen
Bisbee pick: 2B Whitey Alperman
Flagstaff pick: 3B Lee Quillen
Phoenix pick: 3B Paul Sentell
Grand Canyon pick: 3B Jack Hannifin

Round 4 :
Cottonwood pick: 3B Bill Shipke
Lake Havasu pick: P Bert Maxwell
Payson pick: 1B Alan Storke
Tucson pick: 2B Joe Ward
Yuma pick: SS Forrest Crawford
Tempe pick: P Walter Moser
Tombstone pick: SS Ed Holly
Prescott pick: 1B Bill Abstein
Nogales pick: LF Bob Ganley
Jerome pick: SS George Mcbride
Kayenta pick: SS Dave Altizer
Sedona pick: 3B Art Brouthers
Bisbee pick: 1B Snake Deal
Flagstaff pick: C Charlie Graham
Phoenix pick: LF Ben Caffyn
Grand Canyon pick: C Fred Payne

Round 5 :
Cottonwood pick: 3B Red Morgan
Lake Havasu pick: RF Frank Jude
Payson pick: P John Mccloskey
Tucson pick: C Bob Peterson
Yuma pick: 3B Eddie Zimmerman
Tempe pick: P Jim Holmes
Tombstone pick: P Clyde Goodwin
Prescott pick: C Boss Schmidt
Nogales pick: LF Jack Hoey
Jerome pick: C Sam Brown
Kayenta pick: LF Gene Good
Sedona pick: 2B Pug Bennett
Bisbee pick: RF Bob Edmondson
Flagstaff pick: LF Frank Burke
Phoenix pick: C Jerry Donovan