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Best and worst No. 1 picks of all time

By Rob Neyer
ESPN.com

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

The Rule 4 amateur draft -- the "June draft," as it's sometimes called -- has been around since 1965. So heading into today, there have been 43 drafts and 43 No. 1 draft picks. Would you care to guess how many of those 43 picks were used to snag a future Hall of Famer? Technically, the answer is zero. No current Hall of Famer was an overall No. 1 pick. But what about players likely to be in Cooperstown someday? Three. That's how hard this is. Yet every time I look at a list of No. 1 draft pi ...

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