Go Pro
Baseball Wise
A Great Gift
for your Favorite Fan
Author: PJ Dragseth
ISBN: 0-9637081-2-0
235 pp.
index, soft cover (6 x 9)
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Description
Members from all levels of the baseball community and members of the Hall
of Fame share their experiences, advice, and personal stories as they explain this career to young players who
want to go pro. It's insider information about working with scouts, when to get an agent and how to get a good
one, draft eligibility rules and your first pro contract, the baseball college scholarship program, life in the
minor leagues, and much more! Parents love this book because it answers many of their questions. |
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Eye For
Talent
Interviews with
Veteran Baseball Scouts
Edited by P.J. Dragseth
Foreword by Lenny Yochim
ISBN 978-0-7864-4361-1
244 pp. softcover (7 x 10)
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Description
Baseball scouts are often unseen, seldom recognized, and almost always underappreciated by fans, but they have
contributed enormously to the development and evolution of baseball at all levels, from the players they signed
to the changing business climate of the game. This book presents original interviews with 19 baseball scouts. In
many cases, these veterans are a vanishing breed; among the most respected baseball men in the business, most have
a minimum of 40 years experience in scouting. They share their experiences as players, their development as scouts
while the business and the game continually evolved, the players they signed and the ones that got away. Along
with each interview is a list of the scout's signed players that made it to the major leagues. |
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Major League
Baseball Scouts
A Biographical
Dictionary
Author: PJ Dragseth
Foreword by Roland Hemond
348 pp., softcover (8 x 11), 119 photos
ISBN 978-0-7864-4360-4
Ebook ISBN 978-0-7864-8565-9 2011
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Description
The life of a major league baseball scout is far from glamorous. Away from
his family for weeks on end, he travels to obscure parts of the world in all types of conditions in search of the
next break-out star. Essential to a club's talent procurement, and thus to its ultimate success, scouts nevertheless
remain relatively anonymous compared to players, coaches, and owners. This work gives due attention to these unsung
heroes of our national pastime. Biographical profiles of more than 300 veteran scouts-from the earliest who traveled
in covered wagons to long-time experts still on the job- chronicle their playing histories, scouting accomplishments,
the organizations for which they scouted, and the players they signed who made it to the major leagues. A first
of its kind, it reveals the men who bring baseball talent to light, adding a new chapter to the annals of the game. |
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