Gib Bodet, P. J. Dragseth

Gib Bodet, Major League Scout

Twelve Thousand Baseball Games and Six Million Miles

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Produktbeschreibung

Gib Bodet's 70-year love affair with baseball dates from his childhood in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and it has carried him through parts of six decades as a scout with the Red Sox, Tigers, Expos, Angels, Royals, and Dodgers. He played ball in high school and the military, coached youth and legion teams, and finally made the game his profession at age 38. In this memoir, Bodet recalls humorous stories about people he worked for and with--Peter O'Malley, Walter Shannon, Gene Autry, John Schuerholz, Al Campanis and long-time friend Tom Lasorda among them--and describes his role in drafting and signing such players as Mike Piazza, Eric Karros, Todd Hollandsworth, Paul Konerko, Matt Kemp, Clayton Kershaw and Chad Billingsley.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780786472406
• ISBN-10: 0786472405
• Artikelnr.: 39122054

Autorenporträt

Gib Bodet has been a professional baseball scout since 1969, and has been with the Dodgers since 1979. He lives in Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments
vi Foreword by Tommy Lasorda
1 Preface by Gib Bodet
3 Introduction by P.J. Dragseth
7 My Road to the Dodgers
13 The O'Malley Era
39 The Life of a National Cross Checker
49 It's All Part of Scouting
57 Moneyball and Swiss Cheese: Both Full of Holes
75 Coverage of Amateur Players: Twelve Thousand Games, Six Million Miles
85 Is He Having Fun? Tips for Developing Young Players
99 Slumps, Streaks, Sliding, Stealing and Other "S" Words
108 When Junior Is a Prospect: Draft Guidelines
137 Off to the Races: An Inside Look at the Draft
161 Four Decades of Baseball Observations
180 My Two Cents
215 Epilogue
233 Index
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