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FORMER TIGERS STAR LEMON LEFT MARK ON FLORIDA YOUTH BASEBALL
Baseball America
|June/July 2025
Few center fielders of the 1970s and '80s were more accomplished than Chet Lemon. Just a handful of them recorded more starts or more putouts in center in those two decades.
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Lemon developed into a star with the White Sox and a World Series champion with the Tigers, but his pro journey began with the Athletics.
Oakland drafted Lemon out of high school in Los Angeles with the 22nd overall pick in 1972. The A’s traded him to the White Sox in June 1975, and he made his MLB debut that September.
This story is from the June/July 2025 edition of Baseball America.
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