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Nice NYT Op-Ed by Doug Glanville

I found this by accident - I followed another blog's link to the NYT site and ran across this piece while I was wandering through. It's a opinion by Doug Glanville, former Cub draft pick

A couple pullquotes to whet the readers' appetites:
As I sat in my high school math class one day, my teacher asked a question that I doubt will find a consensus opinion in my lifetime: "Was math invented or was it discovered?" To this day, I still scratch my head. I (Doug Glanville, baseball player) was discovered — several years after that math class, but well before the phone rang a couple of minutes after six on an evening in June 1991. My junior year of college had just ended and I knew that the closer it rang to 6:00 p.m., the higher I was in the annual amateur baseball draft. And in draft terms, higher means better. At the other end of the line was a representative of the Chicago Cubs. He congratulated me and told me the good news: his organization had selected me as their first choice in the draft. It turned out that only 11 players in the country had been selected before me, so I was in good company.
(...)
With all of this attention, I started to ask myself, What do I have as a player that no one else has that’s putting me under this microscope? The quantifiable answer seemed straightforward. Most of it could be measured using a stopwatch or a radar gun: I could run, I could catch, I could throw and I could put a round bat on a round ball with accuracy. But even I understood that my ability to succeed at the next level of baseball would be predicated on a lot more than numbers.
He comes across as a very thoughtful guy - it's a good read until game time if you're so inclined.

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Thanks for the tip and the link

Glanville’s pieces are always worth reading-thoughtful, intelligent and always interesting.

by bluekoolaide on Jul 5, 2008 2:41 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

+1

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Jul 5, 2008 2:48 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

The best op-ed I have ever read in the NY Times

even though the bar is set pretty low at that rag. Not to diminish Glanville’s piece, which is smart and provocative. Thanks for the link!

"Whoo, boy! Next time around, bring me back my stomach!" -Jack Brickhouse

by Goodie1969 on Jul 5, 2008 2:58 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Great stuff as always..

..thanks for the link!

by JB 23 on Jul 5, 2008 7:10 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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