Minor Leagues Major Dreams

Minor Leagues/Major Dreams, Winterball & A Scout's Life

All three of Nathan Kaufman's critically acclaimed behind the scenes baseball documentaries for one low price.
Minor Leagues/Major Dreams
Forget your highlight tapes and sepia-tinted nostalgia riffs, the real soul of pro baseball lies three leagues below the majors — where teenage phenoms find out if they're for real and suspects are weeded from prospects. Observant documentarian Nathan Kaufman spent the 1991 season with the Oaks (a Minnesota Twins farm team), recording the dreary bus rides, junk-food orgies, locker-room pranks, public ordeals, and private crises. Most of all on Minor Leagues/Major Dreams, he succeeds brilliantly in profiling a handful of prototypical players and, through them, the undimmed dreams of athletes everywhere. Entertainment Weekly

Winterball
Each winter, dozens of American baseball players — mostly minor- and major-league 'tweeners looking for an edge — head to Venezuela to hone their skills on professional teams comprised largely of native players. And each winter these importados confront the culture-clashing challenges of unfamiliar food, low-rent facilities, gnarly playing fields, and rowdy fans that test their collective nerve in ways that a Roger Clemens heater never will. For the 1992-93 season, all-star baseball documentarian Nathan Kaufman (Minor Leagues — Major Dreams) hung out with the Americans playing for the Cardenales de Lara of Barquisimeto, recording their personal and collective crises (including two games called on account of a coup attempt). He returns with a tellingly unpretentious locker-room home movie of serious, career-on-the-line ballplayers feeling very far from home. Entertainment Weekly

A Scout’s Life
"An hour-long gem of a baseball film...A must-see for baseball diehards" SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
With free agent salaries skyrocketing, finding and developing talent from within makes the art and science of scouting more important than ever. Travel with Gerry Craft, Eastern Scouting Supervisor for the Houston Astros as he looks for the best hand to play in the high stakes poker game of the June draft. What do scouts look for? How do they think? Gain insight into the history of scouting with Kevin Kerrane, author of Dollar Sign on the Muscle.