{"product_id":"9781933599236","title":"Can He Play?: A Look At Baseball Scouts and Their Profession","description":"Includes over 100 photos.\u003cp\u003eThey 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword, by Roland Hemond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction, by Jim Sandoval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hall of Fame Looks at Baseball Scouts, by John Odell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. IVORY HUNTERS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Huff: Athletic Reformer and Speaker Discoverer, by Timothy M. Gay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarry Sutton, by Jim Sandoval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScouting Jack Doyle, by Neal Mackertich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Pop\" Kelchner, by Ron Smiley and Jim Sandoval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharley Barrett, The King of Weeds, by Jim Sandoval \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBob Quinn, Founder of the Farm System, by Craig Lammers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Edward Chapman, Ph. D., Baseball's Renaissance Man, by Jim Sandoval \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCy Slapnicka, by Brian McKenna \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoy and Bessie Largent, Baseball's Only Husband and Wife Scouting Team, by Jim Sandoval \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. FIND THEM, HIDE THEM, AND SIGN THEM: DEVELOPMENT OF THE FARM SYSTEM \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevelopment of the Yankees Scouting Staff, by Dan Levitt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Krichell, by Dan Levitt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Essick, by Dan Levitt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGene McCann, by Jim Sandoval \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Devine, by Dwayne Kling \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Greenwade: Destined For the Hall-Of-Fame, by Jim Kreuz \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigning of Tony Lazzeri, by Fred Glueckstein \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. THE GOOD FACE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Digby, interviewed by Ron Anderson \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBroadway Charlie Wagner, by Bill Nowlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdith Houghton, by Shawn Selby \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEd Scott, interviewed by Ron Anderson \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAl LaMacchia, by Dave King \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDario Lodigiani, by Irwin Herlihy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. THE PLAYERS SPEAK \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Player's View of Scouts in the 1950s, by Dave Baldwin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnny Pesky, on signing with the Red Sox, by Bill Nowlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Waiting for the Call\" - Fernando Perez, interviewed by Bill Nowlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. BASEBALL GOES INTERNATIONAL \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Cambria, by Brian McKenna \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Pompez: From the Rackets to Respectability; A Hall of Fame Scout, by Brian McKenna \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowie Haak, by Jim Sandoval and Rory Costello \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpy Guerrero, Super Scout, by Jim Sandoval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Clark, Baseball's Leonardo Da Vinci, by Bill Nowlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. THE DRAFT ERA \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajor League Scouting Bureau \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Intern's Perspective on the Draft, by Ben Jedlovec \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLou Gorman: \"You Don't Win Without Good Scouts\" \/ A GM Looks at Scouting, by Bill Nowlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Hairston, by Rory Costello \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJesse Flores, From Picking in the Fields to Picking Prospects, by Jim Sandoval \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGene Bennett, by Robert Sawyer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBob Zuk, by John Klima \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Don't Get Too Domestic Out There\" The Baseball Life and Insights of Herb Stein, by Lee Lowenfish \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge \"Hats\" Omachi, by Bill Nowlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. CROSS CHECKING \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational Cross Checking, by Gib Bodet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTopps Scouts Cards \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. ADVANCE SCOUTING \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery Game is a Road Game \/ Dana Levangie, by Bill Nowlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeacon Jones: The 26th Man on the Team, by Bill Nowlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory of the Scout of the Year Program \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. SIGNING SCOUTS OF THE HALL OF FAMERS \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. SCOUTING SCHEDULES \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmateur Scout schedule, by Damon Iannelli \/ Southeast scouting supervisor, Colorado Rockies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePro Scout schedule, by Leon Wurth \/ Milwaukee Brewers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaseball Scouts in the Movies, by Rob Edelman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Society for American Baseball Research","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063809589488,"sku":"9781933599236","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933599236_p0.jpg?v=1763641261","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933599236","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}