Major League Baseball’s annual selection of amateur players, the gateway most college and high-school players dream of. Jackson Olson hoped to be drafted after his college career at Hartford and Stetson; when the call never came, he built a large social-media following instead — which led him to the Savannah Bananas in 2022 and a fame the draft rarely delivers.
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Mentioned in: From Rawlings Gold Gloves to Banana Ball: How Dan and Laura Olson Raised a Social-Media Ballplayer