PUT YOURSELF IN THE ROOM...

...the Draft room, that is.

The Women's Sports School presents Scouting Baseball! to provide women with professional instruction in the basics of baseball scouting. Program attendees may consider scouting as a potential career, or use their new knowledge to enhance their current careers.

We're Scouting in Florida!

 ​Scouting Baseball! 

April 16-20, Jupiter, FL

Learn how to watch baseball and evaluate talent like a scout.
​Four days of instruction and hands-on experience.

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Welcome to our room at the ballpark!

Who should apply?

Do you love baseball? Do you want to work in baseball? Do you currently work in baseball and want to enhance your career? Are you interested in learning about analytics and statistics, or applying your current knowledge to baseball? Have you ever thought of a career as a baseball scout? ​Maybe you just want to learn more about the game. If you are serious about learning how to evaluate baseball talent and where  you might apply in that in your job, your life, or your love of baseball, join us for Scouting Baseball!

Be a scout - or just scout like one!

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What to expect.

.Expect four days of intensive learning in the classroom and at the ballpark. Your instructors, a current, ML team Pro Scouting Director and his staff,  will provide the education and then accompany you to the stadium as you scout players in the Florida State League.

​Expect two classroom sessions per day, and one baseball game, Friday - Sunday. Thursday and Monday, half-days will be reserved for introduction, more instruction, and evaluation of your progress.

I WANT TO GO TO FLORIDA!

It's not hard to pick them out. You look for the natural ability. The rest comes with training."
​Edith Houghton, the first woman hired as a full-time, MLB scout. Philadelphia Phillies 1946 - 1952.

Edith Houghton pictured here, in 1946, at her hiring by the Phillies.

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