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class="infobox-data">24</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Hall of Famers</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>2</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">P <a href="/wiki/Lee_Smith_(baseball)" title="Lee Smith (baseball)">Lee Smith</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">OF <a href="/wiki/Andre_Dawson" title="Andre Dawson">Andre Dawson</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa; padding-top: 3px;"><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/1974_Major_League_Baseball_draft" title="1974 Major League Baseball draft">1974</a></div><div style="float: right; text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/1976_Major_League_Baseball_draft" title="1976 Major League Baseball draft">1976</a> →</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>1975 Major League Baseball draft</b> took place prior to the 1975 MLB season. The draft saw the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels" title="Los Angeles Angels">California Angels</a> select <a href="/wiki/Danny_Goodwin" title="Danny Goodwin">Danny Goodwin</a> first overall. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_round_selections">First round selections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1975_Major_League_Baseball_draft&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: First round selections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table> <tbody><tr> <td style="background-color:#FFCC00; border:1px solid #aaaaaa; width:2em;"> </td> <td>= All-Star</td> <td> </td> <td style="background-color:#CCFFCC; border:1px solid #aaaaaa; width:2em;"> </td> <td>= Baseball Hall of Famer </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The following are the first round picks in the 1975 Major League Baseball draft.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many baseball draft experts consider the 1975 draft to be the weakest in MLB history.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. 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