The arm : inside the billion-dollar mystery of the most valuable commody in sports
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Published
New York : Harper, 2017.
Edition
First Harper paperback edition.
ISBN
9780062400376, 0062400371
Physical Desc
358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Status
Adult Nonfiction - Public Shelving
796.357 PAS
1 available
796.357 PAS
1 available
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Published
New York : Harper, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First Harper paperback edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780062400376, 0062400371
Notes
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"Every year, Major League Baseball spends upward of $2 billion on pitchers - five times the salary of all NFL quarterbacks combined. Pitchers are the lifeblood of the sport, the ones who win championships, but today they face an epidemic unlike any baseball has seen. One tiny ligament in the elbow keeps snapping and sending teenagers and major leaguers alike to undergo sugery, an issue the baseball establishment ignored for decades. For three years, Jeff Passan traveled the world to better understand the pitching arm and its past, present, and future. He exposed the broken youth system that spits out more injured pitchers than ever. He got the inside story of how the Chicago Cubs decided to spend $155 million on one arm - an arm that helped them win their first World Series in 108 years. He sat down for a rare interview with Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, whose career ended at thirty because of an arm injury. Passan went to Japan to understand how another baseball-obsessed nation deals with this crisis. And he followed two major league pitchers as they returned from Tommy John surgery, the revolutionary procedure named for the former All-Star who first underwent it more than forty years ago. Passan discovered a culture that struggles to prevent arm injuries and lacks the support for the changes necessary to do so. He explains that without a drastic shift in how baseball thinks about its talent, another generation of pitchers will fall prey to the same problem that vexes the current one."--Back cover of work.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Passan, J. (2017). The arm: inside the billion-dollar mystery of the most valuable commody in sports (First Harper paperback edition.). Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Passan, Jeff. 2017. The Arm: Inside the Billion-dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commody in Sports. Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Passan, Jeff. The Arm: Inside the Billion-dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commody in Sports Harper, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Passan, Jeff. The Arm: Inside the Billion-dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commody in Sports First Harper paperback edition., Harper, 2017.
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