George Genovese, regarded as one of the greatest baseball scouts of all time, died Sunday at age 93. He scouted Southern California for the Giants and Dodgers for five decades and lived in North Hollywood. The version of his obituary that ran in print is here.

Fifteen years ago, our Kevin Modesti wrote about Genovese, who by then was scouting part-time for the Dodgers but hardly slowing down.

I collected a couple anecdotes about Genovese that didn’t make it to print but are worth passing along here.
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