ND lost Yaz + 2 other players to MLB in 1959

In addition to shortstop Carl Yastzremski signing a MLB contract off the ND campus, the Irish lost 2 other baseball players to the majors that season- all 3 were projected to start for the Irish in the upcoming season:

**LHP Frank Carpin (see link below)
signed a MLB contract after one season on the ND varsity baseball squad. Carpin had struck out 102 in 36 innings!! That ND record stood until Aaron Heilman struck out 118 in 1999...though Heilman took 61 innings to accomplish the feat.....Carpin also struck out 19 in a 10 inning game vs Indiana

Carpin played with the Pirates and Astros in the majors

**LHP Larry Nosse

also signed a MLB contract off the ND campus...albeit Nosse never made the majors

a ND baseball player who was left behind on that varsity Irish squad after those 3 left - RHP Jim Hannan, later pitched in the Majors for the Washington Senators, Tigers and Brewers over a 10 yr MLB career.

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of note

two "Bonus Babies" signed off the Notre Dame campus would have been on the 1957 ND College World Series team IF they hadn't gone pro:

**Tommy Carroll SS

Mentioned in the previous post was 6'3 shortstop Carroll signed off the ND campus with the Yankees & appeared in a World Series

and

**'Diamond' Jim Brady LHP

Signed off the ND campus by the Tigers one year after Carroll -for $ 37,500..a lot of money for those days with the bonus amount the reason supposedly that Brady picked up the 'Diamond' nickname

Brady played in the majors with the Tigers but eventually went back to ND to get his degree + a masters & Doctorate.....taught economics at ND & Old Dominion & later was President of Jacksonville U

Click here for link at https://njbaseball.net/from-nd-to-mlb-frank-carpin/