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Cover photo by Newscom/Juan DeLeon/Icon SMI Cover: Top baseball agent Scott Boras with Mark Appel, a star pitcher drafted by the Houston Astros. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ellenport, Craig. Sports agent / by Craig Ellenport. pages cm. -- (Careers off the field) Includes index. ISBN 978-1-4222-3270-5 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4222-3264-4 (series) -- ISBN 978-1-4222-8528-2 (ebook) 1. Sports agents. I. Title. GV734.5.E55 2016 796.06’94--dc23 2015007863