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Jun 30, 1998 · Frank Scott, former New York Yankee official who became baseball's first player agent, dies at age 80 (M) ... There had been sports agents before Scott, notably C. C. (Cash and Carry) Pyle, who ...
Sep 23, 2015 · How Yogi Berra Helped to Create the First Sports Agent. At the height of the Yankee great’s career, his pal Frank Scott came up with a new way for him and other baseball players to supplement ...
Sep 25, 2015 · He was not viewed as an agent by today’s terms, since he did not negotiate any contracts, but he greatly increased the worth of his clients through endorsements. In what started as a one-man operation, Frank Scott started a movement in the “fastest growing business in sports,” according to the Associated Press in 1957. Few people were ...
Oct 30, 2015 · Frank Scott was no C.C. Pyle. ... By the time they secured a Nike deal for Jordan in 1984, the sports agent had become a fully integrated part of an athlete's career. ...
Jul 2, 1998 · Frank Scott, 80, the first sports agent who negotiated endorsements and public appearance deals for baseball players, died June 28 at a hospital in Livingston, N.J., after a fall at a nursing home
Sep 23, 2015 · Willie Mays, left, Yogi Berra, right and the man who was their agent, Frank Scott, center. ... Agents didn't start negotiating sports contracts until the late 1960s. The combined efforts of agents ...
Oct 20, 2016 · Frank was the first significant player agent of “modern times,” that being post-World War II. Christy Walsh, best known as Babe Ruth’s agent, sort of invented the profession in the ’20s, and then C. C. “Cash and Carry” Pyle carried on as football hero Red Grange’s agent.
