I was just looking back at the Yankees 11th Round Pick in the June 1970 Draft – yes, I am a Yankees-fanatic, ain’t I? – and I saw that they selected Kevin Rusnak from OSU. However, the selection was voided.
This got me wondering as to what this was all about – and then I found this from the June 17, 1970 edition of the Spokane Daily Chronicle:

Is that crazy, or what? Oh, the days when everything was done with pen and paper…
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June 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 am
I can’t be 100% sure, but we can be reasonably certain that Brian Cashman was not involved.
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 pm
@ Evan3457:
It was Lee McPhailure, but also check out Murray Cook’s experience with Tim Belcher.