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Résumé
Reviewed by: John Henry Moss: Baseball's Miracle Man William E. Akin Bob Terrell . John Henry Moss: Baseball's Miracle Man. Fairview, NC: Ridgetop Books, 2008. 184 pp. Paper, $16.00. Few people who are not devotees of the low-minor leagues will even recognize the name of John Henry Moss. Out of the national spotlight, he labored [End Page 152] longer and harder to develop a prosperous minor-league system than anyone since World War II. No one in the history of the game spent more time organizing and running leagues in the low-minors than he did before his retirement in 2008. In recognition of his contribution and longevity (fifty years at the helm), the South Atlantic League actually retired number fifty for all league teams. Moss's life mirrors the transformation of minor-league baseball over the past sixty years from a hardscrabble existence to a prosperous corporate enterprise. In 1948, Moss, then a thirty-year-old World War II veteran and concrete-block salesman, organized the Western Carolina League (WCL). There were no investors waiting to bid for a franchise. The first job of league presidents was to find backers. Moss, who grew up and lived most of his life in King's Mountain, North Carolina, found a car dealer, a furniture manufacturer, a superintendent of schools, a physician, and a former mayor willing to invest a few hundred dollars of their money in teams for their hometowns. His first league consisted of towns ranging in size from 6,500 to 18,000, all located so close to each other that teams had no overnight trips. After forming his league, Moss left North Carolina for a decade to follow his own dream of climbing the baseball ladder as a general manager in the Detroit organization. The Western Carolina League did not survive long without Moss's leadership, and he languished far from the Carolina hill country. In 1959, Moss returned to King's Mountain and began to reorganize the Western Carolina League. In his ten years away, minor-league baseball had gone into a deep decline; attendance plummeted after 1951, major-league teams trimmed their farm systems, and the number of minor leagues reached an all-time low. Moss, not deterred by the odds, again found local backers, but they demanded working agreements with major-league teams. Every American and National League farm director rejected Moss's appeals. In a slight-of-hand that established Moss's reputation, he found backers in Branch Rickey's proposed Continental League. Each of the proposed Continental League teams actually adopted a Western Carolina League team. The infusion of dollars did not last the season, but it allowed Moss's league to get a running start. After the Continental money ceased, the WCL nearly died, struggling along with just four teams in 1962. In order to sustain the league, Moss jettisoned the folksy local towns and expanded into three South Carolina cities. Then he managed to kidnap the South Atlantic League. When the venerable SALLY League changed its name to the Southern League—in order to replace the defunct Southern Association at the Class AA level and to shift franchises into large southern cities—Moss scooped up the name and claimed the history of the South Atlantic League (now known only as SAL). It mattered little to [End Page 153] Moss that his league was designated "low-A" in baseball's revised classification system. Under Moss's reign, the SAL morphed into a corporate powerhouse. Today, the SAL operates with sixteen teams playing in two divisions. The days when teams returned home after an away game are long gone. Geographically, the league ranges from Lakewood, New Jersey, to Eastlake, Ohio, to Savannah, Georgia. Back in 1962, Moss's entire WCL pulled in 77,379 fans. In 2008, the Greensboro, North Carolina, team alone attracted 440,787 customers, and the entire SAL drew 3.7 million to its games. When he started, Moss was happy to find someone who would take a franchise. Now the entrance fee is $3.5 million. League parks boast corporate names, sky boxes and luxury suites, picnic areas, mascots, restaurants, stores, websites, and radio networks. Making...
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Prédiction distillée sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Apprise à partir de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Gemma. Le mode candidate est l'union des têtes enseignantes seuillées; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont ni des étiquettes humaines ni des étiquettes directes de modèles de pointe.
Scores Codex et Gemma par catégorie
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Communication savante | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Science ouverte | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,353 | 0,000 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule tête enseignante, pas un consensus.
Le détail, modèle par modèle et score par score, se trouve en fin de page sous « Comment cette classification a été obtenue ».