RubeBaker
06-17-2007, 08:02 AM
Recently, I uncovered this gem in my collection of baseball stuff, a 1989 The Sporting News Scouting Notebook. I find it very interesting to see what scouts said about players back then as compared to what we have seen from them now. But instead, instead of just posting what it says, I'd like to make a game of it.
What I will do is post little snippets from their scouting report, and from those snippets, try and guess who the player is. I will post a new one each day, or if I find some one has correctly guessed the player I'll put up another one. Pretty straight forward.
I will use players that should be fairly well known, some better than others. If you see an XXX in the sentence, that means I'm just covering up the player's name to conceal his identity. Also remember, this is from 1989 and not everything a scouting report says is neccessarily going to come true.
Good luck, and here comes the first scouting report...
What I will do is post little snippets from their scouting report, and from those snippets, try and guess who the player is. I will post a new one each day, or if I find some one has correctly guessed the player I'll put up another one. Pretty straight forward.
I will use players that should be fairly well known, some better than others. If you see an XXX in the sentence, that means I'm just covering up the player's name to conceal his identity. Also remember, this is from 1989 and not everything a scouting report says is neccessarily going to come true.
Good luck, and here comes the first scouting report...