Western Hills High School in Cincinnati was, for a time, a school like Harvard-Westlake in Los Angeles is now, a school that produced good big leaguers for an extended period of time. In the 1950s and 1960s, Don Zimmer, Russ Nixon, Art Mahaffey, Ed Brinkman and Pete Rose came from Western Hills to the big leagues.
And then there was Dick Drott, who was supposed to be the best of all of them.
Signed by the Cubs just after his graduation in 1954, Drott didn’t pitch all that well in the Cubs’ minor league system — he had a 4.