<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=43Ague_0nM2UAsR00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=43Ague_0nM2UAsR00" width="1900" height="1069" ></figure>BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — History was made on Sunday night when Boynton Beach native Nolan Schanuel was picked 11th overall in the Major League Baseball Draft by the Los Angeles Angels."I had a flashback to every memory I had growing up," says Schanuel. "From T-ball, coach pitch, back to middle school baseball and high school, then onto college. I kind of ran through all that [in my mind] and it made me start crying even more."Schanuel became the highest-drafted player in any professional sport to come out of Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and says he couldn't think of a better MLB team to make more history with than the Angels."They gave us all 30 hats, and I tried all 30 on," says Schanuel. "This (Angels) one looked the best, so it works out perfect that way."This will likely also work out well for the Angels organization as well, drafting a player whose batting average was over .400 throughout his high school years at Park Vista, and whose slash-line was ridiculous at FAU this past season. The Boynton Beach native finished with an unheard-of .447 average, a .615 on-base percentage, and an .868 slugging percentage."He has this inner toughness and belief in himself," says FAU head coach John McCormack. "He never wavers from the plan."That plan was solidified when we ran into Schanuel four years ago, when the Park Vista baseball team got to meet their most famous alumni. MLB star Trea Turner's success and work ethic were clearly rubbing off on Schanuel, a Cobras senior at the time.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4ShKPL_0nM2UAsR00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4ShKPL_0nM2UAsR00" width="648" height="365" ></figure>"It means any of us can do it if we try," said Schanuel at the time. "If we work hard enough, if we go out and practice every day."Schanuel has now proven himself absolutely right, but he knows there's still a long way to go."In ten years he'll hopefully be six or seven years into a really nice big league career. Playing at first or left field for the Angels and hitting at the top of the order, and doing some of the great things he does now. I can see him being that guy who's in one place for his whole career, and he becomes the standard bearer for that organization."</div></body>

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BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — History was made on Sunday night when Boynton Beach native Nolan Schanuel was picked 11th overall in the Major League Baseball Draft by the Los Angeles Angels. \"I had a flashback to every memory I had growing up,\" says Schanuel. \"From T-ball, coach pitch,...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — History was made on Sunday night when Boynton Beach native Nolan Schanuel was picked 11th overall in the Major League Baseball Draft by the Los Angeles Angels. "I had a flashback to every memory I had growing up," says Schanuel. "From T-ball, coach pitch,...