High School & College
In High School, he was a 2-time All-State selection at Naperville North High School in baseball and an all-area selection in basketball. He was drafted in the 42nd round of the 1995 Major League Baseball Draft by the Baltimore Orioles but chose instead to go to college. Hairston played college ball at Southern Illinois University in 1996 and 1997, where he batted .360 for his career and was the Missouri Valley Conference Freshman of the Year in 1996. He was later inducted as a member of the Southern Illinois Baseball Hall of Fame.
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