Scout worked the San Diego area for nearly 50 years, signed or recommended multiple major leaguers
Mike Wallace, an amateur baseball scout in the San Diego area for nearly 50 years, died June 19 after battling throat cancer for the third time.Wallace was a regular at college, junior college and high school diamonds across the county, working for the Angels, the MLB Scouting Bureau, the Oakland A’s, Montreal Expos, Detroit Tigers and for the last 20 years, the Cincinnati Reds.
Wallace played on a Michigan State team that won the Big Ten championship in 1954 and placed third in the College World Series.He played professionally in the Philadelphia Phillies organization for three years and coached and managed in the minor leagues before turning to scouting. He was one of founding fathers of the Area Code Games, the most prestigious amateur scouting event in the nation, and was a lifetime member of the Association of Professional Ballplayers as well as the Southern California Professional Scouts Association.
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