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Article: ; Craig Wright isn't a scout or statistician. But teams pay him to tell them which players will succeed.(USA)(Baseball People)(Folks Who Make The Game Go)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 27, 1999
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Craig Wright stares out of his home-office window at two towering redwoods that somehow escaped the chain saws decades ago. He's thinking. And almost certainly, it's about baseball.
"If there is a question, there's an answer," he says, finally. "It's a matter of how you get to it. Baseball people can fall into blindness. I'm a scientist. I pursue the truth."
Mr. Wright, who majored in English and sociology at Alma (Mich.) College, is a Major League Baseball consultant. Finding a title for himself has always been difficult. "My business," he says, "is the science of baseball. Somehow, baseball- ologist sounds too hokey."
Basically, Wright ...