Following a brief period in which he drove across the country for fun and then worked as a truck driver, deejay and day cook, he landed a job at The Free Press in Quakertown, Pa.
In the summer of 1983, producer/director Mike Tollin and Gary Cohen (Halcyon Days Productions) hired him to write This is the USFL, the weekly highlight show for the new United States Football League, which aired on ABC from 1983-1985.
Scott was also an integral part of various other shows and videos including Men of October, Legacy, The Best of the USFL and Michael Bolton’s Winning Softball.
Jeff Scott joined MLB Productions (through Phoenix Communications) in 1988 as the writer for ESPN’s Major League Baseball Magazine – one of the first independently produced programs for the fledgling network.
He began writing This Week in Baseball – the longest running sports anthology program in television history – in 1992, for Mel Allen, the legendary announcer and original voice of TWIB.
When the Baseball Commissioner’s office took back MLB Productions from Phoenix Communications in 1999 Scott began writing for Buzz Brainard, who would narrate TWIB for the next 11 seasons.
[4] The program – which polls players on a variety of subjects – was hosted by MLB Network personality, Greg Amsinger during its two year run.