TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mandel, Brett H.,
TI  - Minor players, major dreams
SN  - 080328232X
AV  - GV 863.A1 .M312 1997
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Baseball players
KW  - United States
KW  - Minor league baseball
N1  - A Bison original
N2  - Brett Mandel, tired of his nine-to-five job, dreamed of a life of baseball instead: not merely as a spectator, not in weekend pickup games, but in professional baseball. Unlike millions of other dreamers, he made it happen. In 1994, he convinced the newly formed Ogden (Utah) Raptors of the Pioneer League to allow him to join the team and write a book about the minor league experience - and the Raptors' first year in baseball. The Pioneer League is a rookie league, designed for first-year professionals, fresh from college - or even younger. It is the first step many take toward the major-league career that will open to very few. Most are destined to last only a brief moment, but that moment is full of promise and was particularly so for the Ogden Raptors, a new team for a city that had a proud baseball heritage but had been without a team in recent years. Minor Players, Major Dreams is a wonderful insider's view of the low minors and the young men chasing dreams as big as the skies they play under in Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Alberta. www.alibris.com
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