What makes Baseball Beginnings qualified to grade players?
Founder John Klima has spent half of his life running around baseball fields from one end of the country to the other. He has covered baseball from the ground up, including high school baseball, showcase baseball, college baseball, summer college league baseball, minor league baseball and major league baseball. As a result, he has a complete and unique approach to the game. Klima spent time with many of the game’s greatest scouts, including George Genovese, Bob Zuk, Gene Handley, Spider Jorgensen, Lennie Merullo, Bill Wight and others. His two years as a college baseball broadcaster and a minor league announcer helped give him the feel for the differing speeds of the game and how the business works. He’s covered several major league games. Baseball Beginnings maintains a wide net of baseball contacts. Though all decisions on players rest with us and us alone, we do consult a group of active baseball men who see the same players and have approximately two centuries of combined experienc
