I hope deaths don’t come in threes but since I’m superstitious in that way I hope penning a few words about the passing of two memorable baseball people on the same day last week will avert a dreaded trilogy. On Thursday January 21 Bobby Bragan passed away in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Read More
STILL AGLOW FROM LA SCOUTS FOUNDATION DINNER
January 21, 2010
There is nothing like a hot stove league gathering to rekindle the baseball
spirit. My first visit to the 7th annual Baseball Scouts Foundation dinner in Los Angeles provided many memorable experiences. Good chats in the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza lobby with notable scouts Gary Nickels, now with the Dodgers, and Jerry Krause, the sage of both basketball and baseball scouting.
“An old scout always gets better, never worse” was just one of Krause’s sage comments. Read More
spirit. My first visit to the 7th annual Baseball Scouts Foundation dinner in Los Angeles provided many memorable experiences. Good chats in the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza lobby with notable scouts Gary Nickels, now with the Dodgers, and Jerry Krause, the sage of both basketball and baseball scouting.
“An old scout always gets better, never worse” was just one of Krause’s sage comments. Read More