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ESPN Names Perfect Game

ESPN’s Leading Authority on Amateur Baseball

 

ESPN and Perfect Game agree to an alliance that could have a large impact on amateur baseball.

 

Cedar Rapids, IA. -  Perfect Game today announced a working relationship with ESPN.  Details will be released at a later time, but Perfect Game is now recognized as ESPN’s leading authority on amateur baseball content. 

 

“This association with ESPN will help us continue our mission of promoting baseball at all levels”, said Perfect Game President Jerry Ford.  “Amateur baseball will benefit greatly, which is a major goal of both ESPN and Perfect Game.  ESPN and Perfect Game share a desire to help young people fall in love with the game of baseball.  Creating baseball fans is just as important as creating baseball players at the grass roots level.  We are very honored and excited to team up with ESPN, Ford said, there is no one who has a bigger impact on baseball or sports in general.”

 

Perfect Game is recognized as amateur baseball’s largest scouting service, headquartered in Cedar Rapids, IA.  Perfect Game holds many events throughout the nation for the most talented amateur baseball prospects. 

 

In 2006, 952 MLB draft picks, including 38 of the 44 players selected in the first round and supplemental first round, attended Perfect Game events.  Over the past 5 years well over 3,000 players who attended Perfect Game events have been drafted by Major League organizations.  The teams that played in the past three NCAA College World Series telecast by ESPN, included over 400 players who attended PG events as high school players. It has been estimated that by year 2009 more than half of all those on Major League rosters will have played in a Perfect Game event.

 

The scouting wing of Perfect Game is www.pgcrosschecker.com which is directed by Allan Simpson.  Simpson was the founder of Baseball America (the publication) and was the editor there for 25 years before joining Perfect Game Inc.  There are over 25,000 players who have individual scouting files in pgcrosschecker.com.  Perfect Game maintains several amateur baseball websites including www.perfectgameusa.com , www.worldwoodbat.com, www.baseballwebtv.com, www.pgnationalacademy.com among others.  Perfect Game also maintains the world’s largest database of amateur prospects.

 

Look for more details regarding ESPN’s relationship with Perfect Game over the coming months.