The arm inside the billion-dollar mystery of the most valuable commodity in sports
"Yahoo lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports -- the pitching arm -- and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors. Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitche...
| Main Author: | Passan, Jeff (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A Dead Man's Tendon
- Dummyball
- The Men Who Changed Baseball History
- Chimps, Quacks, and Freaks
- Young Guns
- Overuse, Underuse, and No Use
- Pay the Man
- The Second Time Around
- Rehab Hell
- Fear, Loathing, and Rotten Meat
- Land of the Rising Arm Injury Rate
- Changeup
- The Swamp of Possible Solutions
- Dog Days
- The New Frontier
- Spring.