The beginning of this chapter talks about Josh's high school days playing baseball. It goes on to tell how at that point Josh and everyone else knew that he was going to play professional baseball. However, he did have a decision to make concerning whether he would be an outfielder or a pitcher. He finally decided to become an outfielder because he wanted to be able to play every game and also because his favorite part of baseball was hitting.
He could throw around 96 miles an hour, but he still was an extremely good hitter as well. At almost every single one of his games, he had major league scouts from many different teams to see if they were interested in having him on their ball club. There were many teams who were interested in Josh. In fact, he was one of the top rated high school baseball players in the country.
Many people thought he would probably be one of the top one or two picks in the draft. This was impressive because there are not very many baseball players coming straight out of high school that get drafted and are number one overall. The odds were he was either going to get drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays who had the number one overall pick or the Florida Marlins who had the number two overall pick. His competition for the number one overall pick was a young right handed pitcher from Houston who also came straight out of high school named Josh Becket who is now a star with the Boston Red Socks. When the draft started, Josh Hamilton was selected as the number one overall pick by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and thus his professional baseball career had begun.
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