The Island has had other high school athletes who excelled in baseball and basketball, but only one, Duane Singleton, who scored 1,000 points on the hardwood, and then became a Major League centerfielder.
Drafted straight out of McKee/Staten Island Tech by the Milwaukee Brewers in the fifth round of the 1992 amateur draft, when he was 17, Singleton played 33 big-league games with the Brewers and the Detroit Tigers when he was still a teenager.
He hit .258 over parts of eight minor-league seasons, stole 30 bases five times, and went whole summers without committing an error, before finishing his career in the Independent Atlantic League, where the early promise of his speed and athleticism was still evident to anybody watching him play
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