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Title details for Can He Play? a Look At Baseball Scouts and Their Profession by Bill Nowlin - Available

Can He Play? a Look At Baseball Scouts and Their Profession

by Bill Nowlin
Jim Sandoval
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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 pro- vide 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 Mc- Nally. Always asking the question, "Can He Play?" Such is the life of a professional scout.Can He Play? collects the contributions of some 26 members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) 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.
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Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 8, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781933599250
  • Release date: August 8, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781933599250
  • File size: 3345 KB
  • Release date: August 8, 2013

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Sports & Recreations Nonfiction

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English

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 pro- vide 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 Mc- Nally. Always asking the question, "Can He Play?" Such is the life of a professional scout.Can He Play? collects the contributions of some 26 members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) 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.
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Sports & Recreations Nonfiction
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