We are currently looking for players ages 17-22 for our international traveling team, the North American Prospects. We will be traveling to Italy in August of 2010 to compete in the Arrezzo/Tuscany Classic. The trip lasts 10 days. We are based in the US and have been puting USA teams togather for international travel since 1996. This team is an invite only team. To find out how to qualify for an invite please visit our website at northamericanprospects.org

or email

administrator@northamericanprospects.org

I'm a few years too old but I did once hit a respectable .417 for Plymouth State University and as far as I know I still am tied for the single game record for stolen bases. While my speed has dwindled I do make up for it in spunk. Let me know if you'd consider me for the roster.

There's something rotten in Denmark, and you can smell it all the way in Tuscany.

The web site says by invitation only. Oh!, and you can pay $250 to be considered for invitation.

There is no history of the program with regard to past players or results. Google returns no historical background on the team/program.

There is not a single contact name on the website. Checking the address on the site comes back to a Barry Jacobs, who has no baseball-related info on Google (but there are at least five individuals with that name in Denton).

But, there is a link where anybody with a credit card can donate money....which, by the way, is not refundable even if it is in excess of that players needs.

Which makes the lack of estimated cost for a player another question.

NAP, you got some splainin' to do.

Wait... you mean someone who signed up 3 days ago for hsbaseballweb, made 4 spam posts and dissapeared might not be legit?

I don't think this is what they were talking about when the wrote the book " Money Ball"