The Talent Scout

Baseball scouts are often unseen, seldom recognized, and usually 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 changes in the 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 forty 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 who made it to the major leagues.

A beautiful and elegant woman is discreetly wiping her tears by the door of a theater.-That girl sings beautiful - says one of the doorwomen when she sees her.The woman has just wiped her eyes. She is the only one who has touched my heart, she says-she had to be a pupil of the man who is thereThe woman stares at him. he looks so serious, like he has no feelings, she says.-He's a mystery, he hasn't even told us his name.The woman looks at her dress, takes out a makeup mirror, looks at her lips, fixes her hair, looks at him again, and walks straight toward him.