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How an unrecruited San Luis Obispo County ballplayer became one of MLB’s best pitching prospects.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2019

He was virtually unrecruited coming out of high school and landed at Arizona in the summer of 1983 only because new coach Lute Olson, taking over a downtrodden program, was desperate for players.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2017

“It was a combination of things,” Dumas says now, when asked to explain why Kupp went so unrecruited out of high school.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2016

Edelman is generously listed at 5 feet 10 inches, and that was the main reason he was largely unrecruited out of high school and junior college.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2015

The Chinese garrison, ill-paid and unrecruited, gradually lost the semblance of a military force, and was not to be distinguished from the rest of the civil population.

From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles