Fielding Dreams

World Premiere. Fielding Dreams: A Celebration of Baseball Scouts documents up close the men and women searching for the ballplayers of tomorrow. Director H. James Gilmore goes beyond the "Moneyball mindset" and features dozens of interviews with some of the scouting legends of the game, including five who helped build the 2023 World Series Champion Texas Rangers. Traveling from Michigan to Florida, Illinois to Texas, and Georgia to Puerto Rico, Gilmore and producer Tracy Halcomb interviewed scouts over a four-year period against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. What follows is an intimate profile of a uniquely American profession - a profession now under threat from biometrics, analytics and the big business that rules the game.

In Attendance: H James Gilmore, Director; Tracy Halcomb, Producer; John Cedarburg, Colorado Rockies Scout