Not many kids who graduate from high school end up with their first job anything similar to what happened to both Mike Morgan and Tim Conroy with the Oakland Athletics in 1978.
The weekend after Mike Morgan graduated from Valley High School in Las Vegas in June 1978, he was selected as the fourth overall pick in that year’s draft. Days later, on June 11, in a move that would be unheard of today, fresh from walking across the stage at his graduation commencement, Morgan walked out to the pitcher’s mound at the Oakland Coliseum making his Major League debut as the starting A’s pitcher in front of 18,000 fans.