Page 18 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, May 15, 2020 DECISION | FROM PAGE 8 time in college baseball, and projected as a top three rounds pick in June 1991. The White Sox still wanted him but did have much to offer financially for the 30th round so Cappuccio continued his rehabilitation and went to earn an economics degree and play and graduate his senior year. A ninth-round draft choice by ChiSox Fully recovered, another banner year for Cappuccio came his senior year at Rollins, with a virtually unprecedented third NCAA All-American selection and another shot at the draft. The White Sox came knocking again, selecting him in the 9th round, with the 251st overall pick. It was the highest a Malden resident had ever been drafted by a Major League Baseball franchise and the first MLB draftee from Malden in ages. A professional baseball career awaited and Cappuccio hit the ground running, and being a polished college star at age 22, he was assigned to the Short Season Single-A South Bend (Ind.) White Sox, in the Midwest League, in the shadow of “Touchdown Jesus,” the home of Notre Dame. There were not one, but two angles to the team Cappuccio grew up rooting for, the Boston Red Sox, that season. First, his first-ever pro baseball manager was none other than Terry “Tito” Francona, who was in his first coaching gig to boot. The other Sox angle was when Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk, then with the White Sox, showed up one day during that 1992 season in South Bend on a rehab stint. He proceeded to hit a home run in the first of three games he played, his first minor league round-tripper since 1971. Cappuccio was doing fine in his pro debut season. He was leading the South Bend Sox in hitting as the season was winding down, at a .291 clip in a platooning role in the outfield and at designated hitter. In early August, he was shipped further east to the Utica (N.Y.) Blue Sox, along with teammate and future 17-year major leaguer Mike Cameron, to bolster their REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS BUYER1 Yu, Ricky Artemenko, Iuliia Jin, Jieying Cohen, William Bonanno, Michael M Higgins-Cassidy, Austen J Price, Amanda T Blagden, Margo Toomey, Kevin M Deweese, Cristina E Goodrich, Scott Toomey, Lila D SAUGUS BUYER2 Yu, Jackie SELLER1 Zhou, Susanna Atkins, Sheila P Bordonaro, Joseph F Bisi, Carlos R Artemenko-Palma, Iuliia Segreve, Brian Fuccione, James A SELLER2 Mei, Dennis Atkins, James J Segreve, Sean Fuccione, Vanessa 98 West Border Road RT Purbrick, John A Gottschalk, Gary G Lewis, Melissa K bench for a playoff run. After an offseason working out in the Malden area with renowned hitting instructor Walt Hriniak, Cappuccio went off to his first spring with Chicago in February 1993 in Sarasota. He showed enough to be placed on the High Single-A roster of the Sarasota White Sox, but after a slow start which saw him slip under .200, he was placed back in South Bend with the newly named Silver Hawks and a new manager, Tony Franklin. Big season at South Bend for slugger Cappuccio thrived that season, establishing himself as an up-and-coming hitting prospect helping lead South Bend to a Midwest League Championship. He hit .305 with four homers and 52 RBIs in 101 games. He was among the team leaders in extra base hits (26 doubles, 6 triples) and led all everyday players in OPS (.813). Cappuccio was key man in a strong outfield contingent which included the likes of Cameron and another future major leaguer, Jimmy Hurst, who hit 20 home runs that season. The next season, in spring of 1994, looked like it could be a big one as to moving up the Chicago White Sox baseball ladder...for all three prospects. 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