Internet brings major change to minor leagues

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Internet brings major change to minor leagues

Sunday, October 28, 2007 12:02 AM CDT

Nowrtwest Indiana Times

BY MIKE CLARK

mclark@nwitimes.com

219.933.4156

 

SUNDAY SPECIAL | SPORTS ON THE NET

 

Greg Tagert's office deep in the bowels of The Steel Yard has a no-frills look.

 

There's a desk, three chairs and a few lockers to store the RailCats manager's gameday gear and street clothes.

 

The most expensive thing there is probably the laptop that sits on Tagert's desk and usually has a baseball-related Web site on the screen.

 

That workhorse computer has become as important a tool for the manager of the defending Northern League champs as a radar gun or fungo bat.

 

"It's a huge difference now, the way we find players," said Tagert, who has been managing in independent ball since 1995.

 

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