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Tampa Bay Rays select David Price on June 7th, 2007 in first MLB Draft on TV

David Price Tampa Bay Rays Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Can you imagine a time the MLB Draft wasn’t on TV? Weird right. Now every year you flip on MLB Network to see who your favorite team selected. However, MLB Network didn’t come on-air until 2009, so does anyone remember what we did before then?

Well, not much. From 1965-2006 we just had to guess what was going live and waited for the team to officially announce who they selected. However, that all changed in 2007.

For the first time in history, the MLB Draft was broadcast live on TV on June 7th, 2007, 14 years ago today.