![]() ![]() The risks in drafting baseball players had just risen. If the feeling in the air was a bit more tense than it used to be, that was because it was 1980. On this late spring day in San Diego several big league teams were putting a group of prospects through their paces. You could be forgiven, if you listened to them, for thinking they were discussing sports cars and not young men. A guy who could run had "wheels" a guy with a strong arm had "a hose." Scouts spoke the language of auto mechanics. There were five tools: the abilities to run, throw, field, hit, and hit with power. "Tools" is what they called the talents they were checking for in a kid. The scouts actually carried around checklists. When big league scouts ¬road-¬tested a group of elite amateur prospects, foot speed was the first item they checked off their lists. ![]() THE FIRST THING they always did was run you. Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.- Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise Mellody Hobson has picked this book as one of the six you need to read if you want to make money. ![]() J— - In "Moneyball, the Art of Winning an Unfair Game," Michael Lewis looks at how the 2002 Oakland Athletics baseball team achieved an awesome winning record while having the smallest player payroll of any Major League team. ![]()
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