Well I dont see anything that looks out of place. So my guess is that there is something wrong with the scripts you are calling. For debugging I would suggest putting the command line strings into another variable, then printing it out, like this: 
$command = "perl z:\\scripts\\baseball\\stats1.pl $date";
print "$command\n";
$message .= `$command`;

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Maybe the command is not actually what you expect. Also you can execute the command that is printed for yourself, just to make absolutely sure it is working as expected.

Another remote possiblitly is that maybe some environment variables that are needed are not getting set in your script? Maybe use should use the absolute path to your perl executable and not just call 'perl z:...' But I am totally guessing.

In reply to RE: Problems with perl script calling perl scripts by perlmonkey
in thread Problems with perl script calling perl scripts by mr_ayo

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