Effectively Wild Episode 324: Kevin Kerrane on Scouting and Dollar Sign on the Muscle
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2013
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam talk to author Kevin Kerrane about the Dollar Sign on the Muscle reprint and the world of scouting.
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| 0:00.0 | Dallas signed in my eyes, all I see is money. |
| 0:02.9 | Huh! |
| 0:03.3 | Dallas signed in my eyes, all I see is money. |
| 0:06.2 | Rose signed in my eyes, all I see is money. |
| 0:09.6 | Good morning, and welcome to episode 324 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball |
| 0:16.0 | Prospectus. |
| 0:17.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller. |
| 0:21.0 | And today our guest is Kevin Carain, who wrote one of the best baseball books ever, maybe |
| 0:27.6 | the best baseball book ever, Sam and I have both read it and loved it, Sam read it more |
| 0:33.5 | recently than I did. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm hoping to go back and reread it soon. |
| 0:38.4 | The occasion is a reprint of the book. |
| 0:41.5 | This book was originally published in 1984. |
| 0:45.0 | It's a book about scouting, the history of scouting, scouts themselves, scouting stories, |
| 0:51.7 | players who were scouted, and it's been out of print for a while now. |
| 0:56.4 | And it's become legendarily difficult to find. |
| 1:00.0 | So baseball prospectus is reprinting the book. |
| 1:03.1 | It's been... |
| 1:04.1 | Why don't you name the book? |
| 1:05.6 | Did I not? |
| 1:07.6 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:08.6 | The book is named Dollar Sign on the Muscle. |
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