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Scott Boras
Scott Dean Boras (born November 2, 1952) is an American sports agent, specializing in baseball. He is the founder, owner and president of the Boras Corporation, a sports agency based in Newport Beach, California that represents roughly 175 professional baseball clients, including many of the game's highest-profile players. Boras has brokered many record-setting contracts since 1982, and many of his clients, including Shin-Soo Choo, Jacoby Ellsbury, Prince Fielder, Matt Holliday, Alex Rodriguez (until 2010), Max Scherzer, and Jayson Werth are among the highest paid in the game. Since 2013, Forbes magazine has named Boras the "Most Powerful Sports Agent in the World."
==Early life and playing career==
Boras was born in Sacramento and grew up in Elk Grove, California, the son of a dairy farmer. He attended the University of the Pacific and made the baseball team as a walk on. He led the team with a .312 batting average in 1972.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Pacific Baseball Record Book )〕 As of 2009, Boras remains in the top 10 in school history in multiple offensive categories.〔 Boras was inducted into the Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame in 1995,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame )〕 and the baseball team's annual "Most Improved Player" award is named in his honor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Pacific Baseball - Team Awards )〕 Following his college career, Boras played four years of minor league baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs organizations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Scott Boras Minor League Statistics & History )〕 Boras made the Florida State League All-Star team in 1976, but knee problems shortened his career and he retired with a career batting average of .288.〔 Boras received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of the Pacific in 1977.
Following his playing career, Boras returned to the University of the Pacific, earning his law degree from the university's McGeorge School of Law in 1982.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= McGeorge School of Law Alumni Profiles )〕 After law school, Boras worked as an associate in the pharmaceutical defense department of the Chicago firm Rooks, Pitts & Poust (now Dykema Gossett), defending drug companies against class-action lawsuits.
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