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To: the scotsman

Sports, especially played at the professional level, do a lot of damage to players’ bodies. It’s the nature of always running at your highest physical level. They hold up baseball as preferred, have they ever bothered to see what happens to baseball players, especially pitchers and catchers, after their career? It ain’t pretty. The NFL is working on the injuries, concussions were down last year, of course one year is a small sample size so we don’t know if that’s a trend or clustering.


15 posted on 09/04/2014 10:28:13 AM PDT by discostu (We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
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To: discostu

Has any retired pitcher or catcher ever expressed regrets about going with baseball instead of football?

It doesn’t have to be actual concussions, or is that wrong? Just the brain being jarred over and over during the course of a football career. Some folks are fine with that and don’t seem to have any problems, others seem to have real problems.

Freegards


31 posted on 09/04/2014 10:51:43 AM PDT by Ransomed
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