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1989 Major League Baseball draft

baseball draft of amateur players by Major League Baseball

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ4585270 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1989 Major League Baseball draft took place in June 1989. The draft saw the Baltimore Orioles select Ben McDonald first overall.

First-round selections

The following are the first round picks in the 1989 Major League Baseball draft on June 5.

Editorial summary

“1989 Major League Baseball draft” enters the record as baseball draft of amateur players by Major League Baseball. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Major, League and Baseball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Major, League and Baseball.
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“1989 Major League Baseball draft” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Major, League and Baseball provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4585270. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “1989 Major League Baseball draft” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.