{"product_id":"minor-players-major-dreams","title":"Minor Players, Major Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrett Mandel, tired of his ninetofive 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 minorleague experienceand the Raptors first year in baseball.The Pioneer League is a rookie league, designed for firstyear professionals, fresh from collegeor even younger. It is the first step many take toward the majorleague 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 insiders 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45900719784134,"sku":"DADAX080328232X","price":23.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/71gai-edrLL.jpg?v=1780317117","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/minor-players-major-dreams","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}