Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball: How the Remaking of Youth Scouting Affects the National Pastime

by Les Edgerton and Wally Lubanski

For decades baseball scouts have beat the bushes for talent, wandering throughout the United States in search of promising young players. But technology and competition have recently brought about big changes, as potential stars are identified as early as Little League.

The largest such scouting and development service, Perfect Game USA, has become the primary pipeline to college and professional baseball, with its participants accounting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786434082
• ISBN13: 9780786434084
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher