Editing Mo Vaughn (section)

==Early life and education==
Vaughn attended [[New Canaan Country School]] in [[New Canaan, Connecticut]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/22/sports/baseball-vaughn-brings-bat-and-leadership.html|title=BASEBALL; Vaughn Brings Bat and Leadership|last=Chass|first=Murray|date=1999-03-22|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-06|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He played baseball for [[Trinity-Pawling School]] in [[Pawling (village), New York|Pawling, New York]].<ref name=baseball_ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/vaughmo01.shtml|work=Baseball-Reference.com|title=Mo Vaughn|access-date=April 23, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMy_UMme9ho |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/VMy_UMme9ho| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Dedication of Mo Vaughn '86 Baseball Field|work=Trinity-Pawling school via [[YouTube]]|date=September 29, 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Vaughn played [[college baseball]] at [[Seton Hall Pirates baseball|Seton Hall]] for head coach [[Mike Sheppard (baseball)|Mike Sheppard]]. While there he set the single season school record for home runs with 28. In his three years at Seton Hall he hit a total of 57 home runs and 218 RBIs, both team records.<ref>{{cite book|title=1991 Score card # 750}}</ref> His teammates included seven-time All-Star and Hall of Famer [[Craig Biggio]], Red Sox teammate [[John Valentin]], and [[Kevin Morton]]. Vaughn earned the Jack Kaiser Award as MVP of the [[1987 Big East Conference baseball tournament]] while keying the Pirates' championship run.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.bigeast.org/Sports/Baseball/BaseballMediaGuide.aspx|page=66|publisher=Big East Conference|title=2012 Big East Baseball Media Guide|access-date=January 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326144657/http://www.bigeast.org/Sports/Baseball/BaseballMediaGuide.aspx|archive-date=2013-03-26|url-status=dead}}</ref>

While at Seton Hall, Vaughn played [[collegiate summer baseball]] for two years (1987–88) with the [[Wareham Gatemen]] of the [[Cape Cod Baseball League]] (CCBL), and in 2000 was named a member of the inaugural class of the CCBL [[Cape Cod Baseball League#Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://capecodbaseball.org/news/hofnews/?article_id=247 |title=Hall of Fame Ceremony 20 January 2001 |publisher=capecodbaseball.org |access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref>

At Seton Hall, his brothers in [[Omega Psi Phi]] gave him the nickname "Hit Dog."<ref name="hungry">{{cite magazine |last1=Dawidoff |first1=Nicholas |title=They're Hungry for Mo |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1991/04/01/theyre-hungry-for-mo |access-date=2 June 2022 |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=April 1, 1991 |language=en-us}}</ref>