Lee Lowenfish

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 

I just finished an interesting if somewhat uneven book "Eye For Talent: Interviews with Veteran Baseball Scouts", edited by the Northern California writer and sociologist P. J. Dragseth (McFarland, 2009). Among the wonderful insights from oldtime scouts are Five Questions that veteran Cincinnati scout Julian Mock always asks young players thinking of a career in  Read More