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050	0	4	_aGV865 _b.B374 2013
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100	1		_aAustin, Dan. _e1
245	1	0	_aBaseball's last great scout _bthe life of Hugh Alexander / _cDan Austin.
260			_aLincoln : _bUNP - Nebraska, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (200 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Stick of Dynamite; 2 Enter Cy Slapnicka; 3 On the Road Again and Again; 4 Striking Gold in His Own Backyard; 5 You Gotta Have a Plan; 6 Scouting in Wartime; 7 After the War, the Show Goes On; 8 Watch, but Don't Pick; 9 Miles Behind, Miles Ahead, but No U-turns; 10 First Brooklyn, Then Dodging HisWay to the West Coast; 11 A Mythical Combination; 12 A Three-Traffi c-Light Townand Loads of Talent; 13 Hondo Hits Them High and Deep; 14 Getting a Twofer; 15 He Made Me Keep Coming Back.
505	0	0	_a16 From No Prospect to FutureHall of Famer17 Where There's a Tryout Camp, There's Hope; 18 Make Way for Tomorrow; 19 Building a New Dream; 20 Let's Get Real about Rebuilding This Club; 21 Trading Who, and Trading When; 22 You Can Lose If You Don't Know the Rules; 23 Finally a Winner; 24 Looking at Another Scoreboard; 25 History Repeats Itself; 26 Overcoming Pitfalls in Seeking Certainty.
520	0		_aLate in 1937 Hugh Alexander, a kid fresh out of small-town Oklahoma, had just finished his second year playing outfield for the Cleveland Indians when an oil rig accident ripped off his left hand. Within three months he was back with the Indians, but this time as a scout-the youngest ever in Major League history. In the next six decades he signed more players who made it to the Majors than any other scout. His story, Baseball's Last Great Scout, reads like a backroom, bleacher-seat history of twentieth-century baseball-and a primer on what it takes to find a winner. It gives a.
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650		4	_aAlexander, Hugh.
650		4	_aBaseball _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		4	_aBaseball scouts _zUnited States _vBiography.
600	1	0	_aAlexander, Hugh.
650		0	_aBaseball scouts _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aBaseball _zUnited States _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=534468&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell