MCDONOUGH — More often than not this spring, if Doug Campbell’s phone buzzed to life with a text or an email, the message would be coming from a Major League Baseball scout.
You couldn’t expect any less for the head coach at Eagle’s Landing Christian, where top MLB prospect Dazmon “Daz” Cameron has spent his last four years.
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