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License to Deal: A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball AgentJerry Crasnick
Rating: 4.0/5 Stars Rank: 3539 Crasnick, a baseball writer for ESPN.com, spent months at Sosnick's side, watching him work with clients and try to sign up new prospects. This in-depth profile is especially good at capturing the earnest but earthy young agent's contradictions: he feels so strongly about integrity that he can complain that a competitor's luring away of a player "doesn't add to the goodness or the kindness of the world," yet he plots pragmatically to pry loose some talent for his own roster. The story loses some focus when Crasnick elects to broaden the perspective, abandoning Sosnick and his players to check out the competition, including super-agent Scott Boras. But these outside views prove helpful, rounding out Sosnick's portrait to show the less flattering light in which others see him. The success of Michael Lewis's Moneyball has aroused interest in the behind-the-scenes financial maneuvers that decide who gets to play, and while this sympathetic look at the frequently maligned role of the agent can't quite match its predecessor's vitality, it should still attract moderate attention. Photos. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. About the AuthorJERRY CRASNICK is one of America's top sportswriters. He has worked
for the Cincinnati Post, the Denver Post, Bloomberg News, The Sporting
News, Sport magazine, and Baseball America, and is a frequent guest on
ESPN radio. He is currently ESPN.com's lead Insider baseball reporter. He lives in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. EditorialsSample 3 of 4License to Deal: A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent Jerry Crasnick
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