From Library Journal
This guide offers advice to prospective college baseball players. Along with academic and athletic profiles for each school, the book provides SAT/ACT requirements, costs, scholarships, and other details. Public and high school libraries should add this.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
This college guide for baseball players presents information gathered from telephone calls and mail surveys for 1,300 colleges, and is intended to supplement comprehensive college handbooks that provide detailed academic profiles. As with most guides of this type, it begins with several dozen pages of advice. Topics briefly covered include how to conduct campus visits, basic NCAA rules, and financial aid. There is also a checklist by which schools may be rated on such factors as size, tuition, facilities, and ethnic diversity. While the bulk of this advice applies to all sports, the writing has been customized for ballplayers. For example, "If your baseball is stronger than your academics, match with those schools that are stronger in baseball than academics, and vice versa."
The entries for individual colleges, arranged by state, begin with the standard information found in general college guides: degrees conferred, tuition rate, student-to-faculty ratio, etc. This information is followed by details germane to baseball programs: number of scholarships for baseball, description of stadiums (e.g., natural grass, 5,000 capacity), conference, and style of play (e.g., emphasis on defense).
This book will be a helpful addition to the office and home collections of coaches, counselors, and parents. However, libraries with the standard college guides or one of the many guides to college athletic scholarships should not consider it an essential purchase.
