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PoindexterOglethorpe

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11. I'm reading "The Arm" by Jeff Passan
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:08 PM
Aug 2016

"Inside the billion dollar mystery of the most valuable commodity in sports."

It's about the human arm, how pitching hundreds, then thousands, of fastballs is completely destroying the arms of gifted athletes. It also talks about the Tommy John surgery, which is a genuine career-saver, but Passan, and some others, are increasingly bothered by the fact that it's being done on younger and younger kids. There's also a pointed criticism of early specialization, year round participation in one and only one sport, and so on.

I'm not a particular fan of baseball, or any sport, but this is quite interesting.

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