[Husker] MLB Draft Update (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> Hopefully this little primer on the MLB Draft answered some of your
> questions. If not it was fun for me to type and reminded me how much I
> miss being involved in scouting and player/development. Those years
> beating the bushes for future MLB players were some fun years. 

To say I'm impressed would be gross understatement.  Thanks for a VERY
enlightening note.

IMHO, a good read on the subject of baseball talent and scouting, though a 
few years old, is the book 'Dollar Sign on the Muscle'.

When I was growing up in NW Illinois in the early 60's, we used to go to 
watch games in the old single-A Midwest League in Dubuque.  I saw Tommy 
John pitch for Clinton a good decade before his eponymous surgery.  (I 
believe the initial injury that eventually led to that surgery may have 
occurred in a game for Clinton, too.  I met him when he was in a Dubuque 
hospital, in the room next to my grandmother, who had just had cataract 
surgery.)

In those days, the lower minor league rosters had a mixture of players on 
their way up the system and those on their way back down.  Not many former
major leaguers stuck with it all the way back to single-A, but a few did.

I think those days are why I've always thought 'Bull Durham' is such a
great baseball movie, I got to know a few players back then chatting with
them from the stands, that movie portrayed the type of baseball and
baseball players I grew up watching.
--
Mike Nolan