| Money ball can move to the bleacher section as Galen Carr, of Burlington, VT becomes the cleats on the turf, the eyes on the players, and the assessor of talent that the Boston Red Sox will need to recapture championship of the Eastern Division of the American League. The Vermont Mountaineers will play host to Galen Carr at their annual Hot Stove Baseball Banquet, a person who has had more than the average influence on the fortunes of the Boston Red Sox.
Carr, who spends weeks at a time on the road, seeking out the perfect additions to the Red Sox lineup will be the keynote speaker at the Mountaineers Hot Stove Banquet scheduled for Saturday, January 28 at the Capital Plaza in Montpelier.
The following is taken from an article published in Seven Days, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Burlington:
“Galen Carr, 35, is a major-league scout for the Boston Red Sox who lives in Burlington, Vt., with his wife and 5-year-old son — at least when he’s not at a baseball game, which he usually is. During the season, Carr spends upward of 25 days per month on the road, attending games and scouting players on every team in the National League East, as well as three NL Central clubs: the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. For most fans, the national pastime is just that: a pastime. For Carr, baseball is, quite literally, his life.
Carr grew up a Sox fan in Walpole, N.H. — or, as it’s known in the Nation, “Carlton Fisk country.” He started playing ball at an early age and continued through college. Indeed, he still maintains a ballplayer’s athletic physique. Carr went to Northfield Mount Hermon in Massachusetts, the same boarding school that Buster Olney, now a senior baseball writer for ESPN The Magazine, had attended several years earlier. Olney and Carr now cohost an annual baseball discussion at the school each January.
Before his senior year at Colby College in Maine, Carr was looking into spending the summer in Burlington with his mother and stepfather when he discovered the city had a minor-league baseball team, the Vermont Expos.”
Mountaineer fans will have a golden opportunity to learn about the closely held secrets, the behind-the-scenes discussions, and the untold strategic evaluation of potential major league baseball players when Galen Carr, special assignment scout for the Red Sox speaks at the Hot Stove Banquet, marking the 10th Anniversary of the Vermont Mountaineers. Carr has been with the Red Sox for thirteen years and a scout for the last five years. |
