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@PitchingFan posted:

Full ride in baseball.  That is few and far between.  Almost the Unicorn.

I am only aware of one guy that was on a full ride athletic scholarship as a baseball player - and he was a teammate of mine. But here is the kicker - he was a two sport recruit as a QB/LHP & CF and he was actually on a football scholarship. After one year of playing both sports all the coaches got together and decided that he would only be a LHP going forward but Emory Bellard agreed to let him keep the full ride football scholarship for the next 3 years. That player was Mark Thurmond who became an All American and went on to pitch 8 years in the big leagues - including starting the first and last games of the 1984 WS for the San Diego Padres.

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