Found December 06, 2011 on Rays Index:
Cork was kind enough to allow me to make this announcement here, and you folks have been really nice to me since I started here and I’m pretty sure you are all baseball fans, so I hope you don’t mind. When I am not writing here, I also write for a site called Bus Leagues Baseball. We write about the minor leagues and one of the areas we take the most pride in is our interviews. We have interviewed top prospects, coaches, front office officials, media, and even fans. We try to leave no corner of the minors uncovered. We have taken the best of our interviews this year and put them in a book. From a Rays perspective, we have interviews with top prospect Alexander Colome, former Devil Ray Mark Hendrickson, recent pick Kes Carter, Jim Donten of the Charlotte Stone Crabs blog Claw Digest.com, and former Devil Rays and Tampa Tarpons employee and current Tampa-area blogger Clark Brooks. Please check out The Bus Leagues Experience Volume 2. I’m biased, of course, but I thin...
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