The arm : : Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
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"Yahoo's 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 pitchers—five times more than the salary of every NFL quarterback combined. Pitchers are the game’s lifeblood. Their import is exceeded only by their fragility. One tiny band of tissue in the elbow, the ulnar collateral ligament, is snapping at unprecedented rates, leaving current big league players vulnerable and the coming generation of baseball-playing children dreading the three scariest words in the sport: Tommy John surgery."--Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: viii, 357 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0062400363
9780062400369
SUBJECTS
Pitchers (Baseball).
Arm -- Surgery.
Arm -- Wounds and injuries.
Baseball players.