Attention sportswriters and agents: if you get a message left for you by a hot young prospect named Montaous Walton talking up his college stats, you probably want to let that one go:
An OnMilwaukee.com investigation has revealed that someone named Montaous Walton does, indeed, exist. But that person has proven to be nothing more a name on a phone record, a voice on the other end of the line.
Montaous Walton, the baseball player, is fictional.
As OnMilwaukee.com reports, this Walton guy — or someone claiming the name — convinced various media outlets to report on his success. That’s not all: he got a couple of sports agencies to give him plane tickets and other things. Major League Baseball isn’t pleased and they want to prosecute the person behind it all.
A good bit of investigative reporting and worth the read.
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- aclassyguyfromaclassytown - May 10, 2012 at 2:33 PM
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Any chance that he is actually Minor League Guy?
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- paperlions - May 10, 2012 at 3:25 PM
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No, Minor League Guy is Oscar Tarveras, who is tearing up AA at age 19.
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- aclassyguyfromaclassytown - May 10, 2012 at 4:26 PM
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Why would someone thumbs down that comment? It’s like saying “Listen a-hole, I don’t need you to give me information on things I was unaware of, jerk”. How dare you add anything informative to the comments.
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- pmcenroe - May 10, 2012 at 2:40 PM
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Aside from claims of factual inaccuracies in Al Stump’s bio of Ty Cobb; I remember there being an amusing anecdote in there about how a young Cobb, using a pen name, sent glowing scouting reports on himself to journalists in an attempt to get signed by a major league team.
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- WhenMattStairsIsKing - May 10, 2012 at 2:57 PM
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Jose Canseco has now officially tried everything.
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- jerryball22 - May 10, 2012 at 2:58 PM
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Need some investigative reporting? Call Fletch
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- Jason @ IIATMS - May 10, 2012 at 3:01 PM
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Montaous Walton, also known as: PTBNL.
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- Old Gator - May 11, 2012 at 12:34 AM
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Did someone say Montana Wildhack?
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- Jason @ IIATMS - May 10, 2012 at 3:02 PM
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Although, Heyman reporting that a mystery team is naturally very interested in mystery player. News at 11
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- thomas2727 - May 10, 2012 at 3:46 PM
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I think I remember reading that Ty Cobb forged letters from scouts saying there is a man named Cobb in Georgia knocking the cover off the ball.
Of course this guy is no Ty Cobb.
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- jwbiii - May 10, 2012 at 10:01 PM
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Richard Thomas was unavailable for comment.
