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Scout's Honor: The Bravest Way To Build A Winning Team | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Shanks
Publisher: Sterling & Ross Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 684966
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0976637219
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3576409758231
EAN: 9780976637219
ASIN: 0976637219
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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Product Description
Using the Atlanta Braves as a focal point, Scout’s Honor is an in-depth look at what instinct and gut reaction means to baseball and how the numbers-don’t-lie style of the new breed is not only misleading, but mistaken.
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interesting June 26, 2008
just like money ball this books will keep you around the scouting process for a major league team, too useful for people connected with this world.
 Talentless Hack June 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This guy is an embarrassment to middle Georgia.
You think Shanks is bad on paper? He's even worse on the air. Just listen to his afternoon broadcats on the Macon, GA station 105.5. Dead air, "dadgum," "uhhh," and "you know" are only a hint of the brilliant insight and southern charm (?!) Shanks provides.
Just yesterday he told his listeners how he hates gum smackers and old people who exercise outside! How relevant; glad you got that off your chest, Bill.
Clearly, Peter Gammons and Dan Patrick are in awe.
Terrible Book March 18, 2008
The author thinks that he's making a grand argument for why one method of scouting is better than another. In reality, he's listing a set of unoriginal anecdotes with little to tie them all together, largely composed to stat lines from a player's time at a certain level. I was expecting Scouts Honor to be interesting and intriguing - an inside look at how scouts determine who is good and who is bad. Besides a few quotes from scouts saying, "You could just tell this guy [who happens to now be a failed mlb prospect] was going to be a major leaguer", the book gives none of that.
It's a failed attempt by a bad beat writer to understand a subject that he clearly has little understanding of. If Scouts Honor proves anything, it is that association with the game of major league baseball does not instill the requisite knowledge of the minor leagues required in order to analyze them. In fact, I'm using the word analysis too liberally: Scout's Honor might as well be a book report by a college student with a little bit more access than the common person.
Terrible Book December 25, 2007
This book was a waste of money. Nothing insightful at all. Shanks sounds like he is nothing more then a wannabe General Manager, that never amounted to anything other than a small time journalist. Scouts Honor was not only a waste of money, but a waste of time.
 Enlightenment on traditional scouting March 23, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this book and assumed it would be an answer to Moneyball, and in some ways it was. But the best description I saw was in an earlier review. If you read the first 4-7 chapters to get a history and an overview of the scouting program, as well as 1 or 2 of the scouting stories on prospects, you get the idea. Then skip to the end and read the last 2 chapters. If that was all the book was, then it would been a fascinating read. But as a competitor to moneyball, it doesnt hold a candle to the book in general.
First, moneyball was well written. This book could've been a compilation of a home schooled sophmore in high school research and writing course. Moneyball actucally has flow, and tells stories differently. Scout's honor tells the same story over and over.
Here's my suggestion. Buy the book, read the first 10 chapters and the last 2, and then return it.
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