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Venezuelan bust, baseball boom : Andrés Reiner and scouting on the new frontier /
- Title
- Venezuelan bust, baseball boom : Andrés Reiner and scouting on the new frontier / Milton H. Jamail.
- Author
- Jamail, Milton H.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- x, 257 p., [13] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A Bison original"--P. 4 of cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-257) .
- Contents
- Venezuelan bust, baseball boom : Mr. Reiner's dream -- It's their game too : the origins of baseball in Venezuela -- The Astros go south : scouting in Latin America -- From zero to prospect : the Astros' academy -- From Tunapuy to Guacara : the search for the new El Dorado -- On the road to El Dorado : scouting on the frontier of baseball -- A dream come true : ten years at the academy -- Maracuchos y gochos : scouting in Maracaibo and the Andes -- The talent search expands : scouting in Colombia, Nicaragua, Panama, and beyond -- Refining the product : the Venezuelan summer league -- Foreigners at their own game : welcome to the Astros' minor league system -- What happened? where did the prospects go? -- Good-bye to the Astros : Andrés's farewell tour -- Andrés's dream and the future of the Astros in Venezuela -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9780803215719 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0803215711 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007033162
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library