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Former Cubs Top Draft Pick Gordon Vogt Dies at 80

Former Cubs Top Draft Pick Gordon Vogt Dies at 80
World Sports · 20:07:53 - Wednesday, 4 November 2026

Former Chicago Cubs top draft pick Gordon Vogt, whose baseball career was interrupted by the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 80.

Vogt was selected as the Cubs' first-round pick in the amateur draft, but his professional prospects were derailed when he was drafted into military service during the Vietnam War.

Details about his later life were not immediately available.

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