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Harvard's All-American catcher, Pete Varney, is the first round draft choice of baseball's Chicago White Sox and standout pitcher Bill Kelly is the number four pick of the St. Louis Cardinals, but senior Dan DeMichele appears to be something of an unwanted commodity...
DeMichele, the Crimson's power-hitting right fielder, carries a 371 lifetime batting average and last year won the Eastern League and Greater Boston bating titles with a 412 average. And yet the majors passed him by in the secondary-active phase of their annual draft Wednesday...
...worst night of my life," DeMichele said from Omaha after the results of the draft were announced. "I'm shocked. You can't imagine what it feels like when you work to achieve a goal for years and then have the people who know...
While DeMichele was shunned by the majors, though, teammate Varney-who led Harvard with a .378 career average-went in the first round of the draft which selected 942 prospects over a two-day period...
Harvard claimed another fourth round pick in a different draft Thursday when the Boston Bruins took junior Dave Hynes as a future pick in the professional hockey draft...