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Author Passan, Jeff, author.

Title The arm : inside the billion-dollar mystery of the most valuable commodity in sports / Jeff Passan.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
©2016
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1673171~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  796.35722 PAS    AVAILABLE
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Description viii, 357 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "Yahoos lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sportsthe pitching armand 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 pitchersfive times more than the salary of every NFL quarterback combined. Pitchers are the games 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.
Subject Pitchers (Baseball)
Arm -- Surgery.
Arm -- Wounds and injuries.
Baseball players.
ISBN 9780062400369 (hardcover)
0062400363 (hardcover)
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