1966 MLB Draft, Round 1

Picks 20Clubs 20

The 1966 June amateur draft’s complete first round: 20 selections in pick order, with Steven Chilcott first overall to the New York Mets. Every row carries the club’s era-correct code, the player’s position and school, his signing status, and the bonus the source reported.

Round-1 picks20

Signed18

Did not sign2

Clubs drafting20

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Round-1 selections of the 1966 MLB June amateur draft, in pick order
Pick	Team	Player	Pos	From	Signed	Bonus
1	NYM	Steven Chilcott	C	Antelope Valley HS (Lancaster, CA)	Signed	$75,000
2	KCA	Reggie Jackson	OF	Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)	Signed	$80,000
3	HOU	Wayne Twitchell	RHP	Woodrow Wilson HS (Portland, OR)	Signed	$35,000
4	BOS	Ken Brett	LHP	El Segundo HS (El Segundo, CA)	Signed	$56,000
5	CHC	Dean Burk	RHP	Highland HS (Highland, IL)	Signed	$35,000
6	WSH	Tom Grieve	OF	Pittsfield HS (Pittsfield, MA)	Signed	$35,000
7	STL	Leron Lee	INF	Grant Union HS (Sacramento, CA)	Signed	$24,500
8	CAL	Jim DeNeff	SS	Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)	Signed	$50,000
9	PHI	Michael Biko	RHP	W. W. Samuell HS (Dallas, TX)	Signed	$35,000
10	NYY	Jim Lyttle	OF	Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)	Signed	$43,000
11	ATL	Al Santorini	RHP	Union HS (Union, NJ)	Signed	$50,000
12	CLE	John Curtis	LHP	Smithtown HS (Nesconset, NY)	Did not sign
13	CIN	Gary Nolan	RHP	Oroville HS (Oroville, CA)	Signed	$40,000
14	DET	Rick Konik	1B	St. Andrews HS (Detroit, MI)	Did not sign
15	PIT	Richie Hebner	SS	Norwood HS (Norwood, MA)	Signed	$28,000
16	BAL	Ted Parks	SS	University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)	Signed	$35,000
17	SF	Bob Reynolds	RHP	Ingraham HS (Seattle, WA)	Signed	$25,000
18	CHW	Carlos May	OF	A. H. Parker HS (Birmingham, AL)	Signed	$21,000
19	LAD	Larry Hutton	RHP	Greenfield HS (Greenfield, IN)	Signed	$50,000
20	MIN	Bob Jones	3B		Signed	$9,000

A pick links to a full player career page when this site carries one; picks without a career page here are plain text. Club codes are era-correct: this draft’s clubs display under the code of the identity they carried that June, and picks awarded as free-agent compensation carry a “via” note naming the originating club. Bonuses are the amounts reported at the time, never inflation-adjusted, and a blank bonus means the source reported none.