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Joe Coleman, former All-Star and pick in first MLB draft, dies at 78

Joe Coleman, the No. 3 selection in the first Major League Baseball draft in 1965, died Wednesday at age 78. His son, former major league pitcher Casey Coleman, said his father died in his sleep in Tennessee.

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