Baseball's last great scout : the life of Hugh Alexander / Dan Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Dan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball scouts--United States--Biography.

Baseball scouts.

Baseball--United States--History.

Baseball.

Alexander, Hugh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<DIV><A href=""http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_sport_history/v041/41.1.carlson.html"">http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_sport_history/v041/41.1.carlson.html</A></DIV>

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 A Stick of Dynamite""; ""2 Enter Cy Slapnicka""; ""3 On the Road Again and Again""; ""4 Striking Gold in His Own Backyard""; ""5 You Gotta Have a Plan""; ""6 Scouting in Wartime""; ""7 After the War, the Show Goes On""; ""8 Watch, but Don�t Pick""; ""9 Miles Behind, Miles Ahead,but No U-turns""; ""10 First Brooklyn, Then Dodging HisWay to the West Coast""; ""11 A Mythical Combination""; ""12 A Three-Traffi c-Light Townand Loads of Talent""; ""13 Hondo Hits Them High and Deep""

""14 Getting a Twofer""""15 He Made Me Keep Coming Back""; ""16 From No Prospect to FutureHall of Famer""; ""17 Where There�s a Tryout Camp,There�s Hope""; ""18 Make Way for Tomorrow""; ""19 Building a New Dream""; ""20 Let�s Get Real about Rebuilding This Club ""; ""21 Trading Who, and Trading When""; ""22 You Can Lose If You Don�t Know the Rules ""; ""23 Finally a Winner""; ""24 Looking at Another Scoreboard""; ""25 History Repeats Itself""; ""26 Overcoming Pitfalls in Seeking Certainty ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8032-4626-9

1-299-13235-9

OCLC:

827207310