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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Roch Cholowsky | |
|---|---|
 Cholowsky with the United States national baseball team in 2025 | |
| Chicago White Sox | |
| Infielder | |
| Born: April 7, 2005 Vallejo, California, U.S. | |
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
| Stats at Baseball Reference |
Daniel Roch Cholowsky (/rɒk tʃəˈlaʊski/; born April 7, 2005) is an American baseball infielder in the Chicago White Sox organization. He played college baseball for the UCLA Bruins and was drafted first overall by the White Sox in the 2026 MLB draft.
Cholowsky was born in Vallejo, California, to Daniel and Tika Cholowsky, and the family later relocated to Chandler, Arizona, when Cholowsky was a child.[1] His father played collegiate baseball at the University of California, Berkeley and was chosen 39th overall in the 1991 MLB draft by the St. Louis Cardinals organization.[1] His father reached as high as Triple-A, and became a Cincinnati Reds scout following his baseball career.[2] Cholowsky is of one-quarter Indian descent.[3]
Cholowsky attended Hamilton High School in Chandler where he played at the varsity level for the baseball and football teams and was considered a top prospect in both sports.[4]
On the football field, Cholowsky was the backup quarterback for Nicco Marcio, and began starting as a senior.[5] After playing four games in which he helped lead the team to a 3-1 record, he suffered a torn meniscus which sidelined him for the rest of his senior season.[5] Cholowsky was considered a three-star recruit as a quarterback and was ranked the 84th best quarterback in the country and 24th best player overall in Arizona.[6] He received offers from New Mexico State University and the University of Notre Dame.[7]
For the baseball team, Cholowsky played as a shortstop and pitcher. As a junior for Hamilton in 2022, he hit .315 with two home runs.[8] As a senior in 2023, he batted .466 with 11 home runs and 35 runs batted in (RBI) and was named the Gatorade Arizona Baseball Player of the Year.[9] He was considered a top prospect for the 2023 Major League Baseball draft, but went unselected and ultimately enrolled at UCLA to play college baseball.[10]
As a freshman at UCLA in 2024, Cholowsky played in 52 games and hit .308 with eight home runs and 33 RBI.[11] After the season, he played in the Cape Cod Baseball League with the Orleans Firebirds.[12][13]
As a sophomore in 2025, Cholowsky was named the Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year, Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Year, and helped lead UCLA to their first College World Series in 12 years.[14] He also was awarded the Brooks Wallace Award, given annually to the nation's best college shortstop, as well as being awarded the Baseball America College Player of the Year Award.[15][16] Cholowsky finished the season with a .353 batting average, 23 home runs, and 74 RBI over 66 games and earned first team All-American honors from Baseball America.[17] After the season, he was named to the United States national baseball team.[18][19]
As a junior in 2026, Cholowsky hit .320 with 21 home runs and 60 RBI across 60 games, his season ending with UCLA being eliminated by Saint Mary's in the NCAA Los Angeles Regional.[20] He was named the Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year for the second consecutive season.[21] He was also one of three finalists for the Golden Spikes Award alongside Landon Hairston and winner Daniel Jackson.[22] After the season, he was invited to attend the 2026 MLB Draft Combine at Chase Field.[23]
Cholowsky was considered a consensus top three prospect for the 2026 Major League Baseball draft, with many evaluators viewing him as the top prospect in the class.[24] He was selected by the Chicago White Sox with the first overall pick in the draft.[25] Cholowsky had visited Chicago the month prior and met with White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, general manager Chris Getz, and director of hitting Ryan Fuller, alongside spending time in the White Sox club house and walking the streets of the city.[26] Following his selection in the draft, Cholowsky said "I left the next morning and called my agent and told him that’s where I want to be and he’s got to do whatever he can to make it work. I know that’s where I want to be, and I hope you guys feel the same way about me" and that he "fell in love with the city."[27] He additionally stated "I got really attached. I would have been upset if it didn't work out."[28] On July 13, 2026, Cholowsky signed with the White Sox for a $10.35 million signing bonus setting a record for largest signing bonus in MLB draft history.[29][30][31]
Cholowsky was assigned to the High-A Winston-Salem Dash to make his professional debut.[32] He played in nine games for the team and hit .167 with one home run, ten RBI, and three stolen bases.[33] On August 22, the White Sox announced that Cholowsky would not play the rest of the season due to right wrist soreness.[34]
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Daniel Roch Cholowsky (; born April 7, 2005) is an American baseball infielder in the Chicago White Sox organization. He played college baseball for the UCLA Bruins and was drafted first overall by the White Sox in the 2026 MLB draft.
The first-year player draft, also known as the Rule 4 Draft, is the primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to Major League Baseball (MLB) teams. Unlike most professional sports, MLB does not permit the trading of draft picks. Since 2023, the first six selections are determined by a lottery; the previous season's standings determine the remaining selections. If two teams have identical records, the team with the worse record in the previous season will receive the higher pick. In addition, teams that lost free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded "compensatory" picks. The first draft took place in 1965; it was introduced to prevent richer teams from negotiating wealthier contracts with top-level prospects and therefore, monopolizing the player market. Originally, three drafts were held each year. The first draft took place in June and involved high-school graduates and college seniors who had just finished their seasons. The second draft took place in January for high school and college players who had graduated in December. The third draft took place in August and was for players who participated in American amateur summer leagues. The August draft was eliminated after two years, and the January draft lasted until 1986. In 1965, Rick Monday became MLB's first draft pick after being selected by the Kansas City Athletics. Roch Cholowsky is the most recent first overall pick; he was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in 2026. Overall, 23 of the 50 picks before 2015 have participated in the All-Star Game, and four (Bob Horner, Darryl Strawberry, Bryce Harper, and Carlos Correa) have won the Rookie of the Year Award. Twenty-five of the fifty picks before 2015 have been drafted from high schools, one has been drafted out of the Independent American Association, and the others were drafted from universities. To date, Arizona State University, Vanderbilt University, Louisiana State University, and Oregon State University are the only schools from which multiple number-one overall draft picks have been chosen. No first overall pick was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame until 2016, when Ken Griffey Jr. was inducted with a record 99.3 percent of votes cast. Griffey has since been joined by three other top picks: Chipper Jones, inducted in 2018; Harold Baines, elected in December 2018 and inducted in July 2019, and Joe Mauer, inducted in 2024. In the 60 drafts that have taken place through 2024, 23 of the 30 MLB franchises have had the first pick at least once. The Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Red Sox, and Colorado Rockies have never had the first pick. The Montreal Expos never had the first pick, but the Nationals, their successor, have had it three times. The Athletics have never had the first pick, but the Kansas City Athletics, one of their predecessors, had the first pick in MLB draft history. The Pittsburgh Pirates have had the first overall pick a record six times, while the New York Mets, San Diego Padres, and Houston Astros have each had the first overall pick five times.
Saint Roch was a Christian saint who lived c.1295–1327. Roch or St. Roch may also refer to:
Hamilton High School is a public high school in Chandler, Arizona, United States. It is Arizona's largest high school, with a 4,200 student capacity.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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