Sentences with phrase «league baseball talent»

It's strictly amateur, but as Sharyn Alfonsi finds out, it's also the biggest source of Major League Baseball talent in the world.

Not exact matches

Last spring, I wrote a piece for the Washington Post on the dramatic proliferation of travel club baseball and the accompanying siphoning of talent from community baseball leagues.

And although major league teams view Cuba as a talent pipeline, Cuba itself is not hung up on the American conception of baseball.

That made them underdogs, which in turn made them lovable, even as their collection of young talent and superior everything stomped on the neck of the rest of Major League Baseball last summer.

It's definitely got elements of social and political subtext, especially as it captures the strange world of the Dominican «baseball academies,» where that nation's raw talent is nurtured for North American harvest in a sort of plantation system controlled by Major League Basebalbaseball academies,» where that nation's raw talent is nurtured for North American harvest in a sort of plantation system controlled by Major League BaseballBaseball teams.

It has an opinion about Major League Baseball opening mills in the Dominican Republic in search of talent with which to line their coffers and fill their stadiums — and that opinion is that it's not as simple as you perhaps think.

One night JB finds himself flicking between coverage of India's premier cricket league and Susan Boyle's appearance on Britain's Got Talent when he has a lightbulb moment and concocts a scheme whereby he'll travel to India to audition youngsters with a view to securing them a professional baseball contract.

Eventually, just like in baseball and other major - league industries, everyone will have to take a sophisticated, high - caliber approach to identifying and recruiting talent.