In 1923, he attracted many baseball scouts to watch him play.
He was 87 and a baseball scout for nearly a half-century.
He was also the first writer to refer to baseball scouts as "ivory hunters."
Professional baseball scouts have had a divided opinion on the issue.
Parks said he began lying about his age years ago at the suggestion of baseball scouts.
She also became a baseball scout in 1911, recruiting both male and female players for a number of professional teams.
These players, the writer noted, had to do more to impress baseball scouts.
Some baseball scouts can talk and watch games at the same time.
"Now all the baseball scouts will be after him."
I was raised, literally, by the old baseball scouts.