Can He Play?: A Look At Baseball Scouts and Their Profession - Couverture souple

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Sandoval, Jim

 
9781933599236: Can He Play?: A Look At Baseball Scouts and Their Profession
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1933599235 ISBN 13 : 9781933599236
Editeur : Society for American Baseball Research, 2011

Synopsis

They dig through tons of coal to find a single diamond. They spend countless hours traveling miles and miles on lonely back roads and way too much time in hotels. Their front offices expect them to constantly provide player reports and updates. So much of their time is spent away from family and friends, missing birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays. Their best friend is Rand McNally. Always asking the question, “CAN HE PLAY?” Such is the life of a professional scout.

CAN HE PLAY? collects the contributions of 26 members of the Society for American Baseball Research on the subject of scouts, including biographies and historical essays. The book touches on more than a century of scouts and scouting with a focus on the men (and the occasional woman) who have taken on the task of scouring the world for the best ballplayers available. In CAN HE PLAY? we meet the “King of Weeds,” a Ph.D. we call “Baseball’s Renaissance Man,” a husband-and-wife team, pioneering Latin scouts, and a Japanese-American interned during World War II who became a successful scout—and many, many more. The legendary Tom Greenwade and the development of the New York Yankees scouting system, interviews with former players Johnny Pesky and Fernando Perez about being scouted, and much more.

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À propos de l?auteur

SABR is the Society for American Baseball Research, a group of over 6,000 enthusiasts about the game of baseball whose research interests range from the game's history to statistical analysis, records, cultural impact, and more. The BioProject is a SABR effort to research, write, and publish biographies of every player--and every person--ever connected with organized baseball. Anyone with a love of baseball can join SABR and become a part of these efforts.

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Éditeur
Society for American Baseball Research
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1933599235
ISBN 13 
9781933599236
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
196
Éditeur
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