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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if you are serious about children, sports, and health, please read this:

http://wtop.com/mlb/2016/04/the-arm-baseballs-biggest-mystery/

[quote]The United States Specialty Sports Association ranks the top national T-ball teams four and under. As in, four years old and younger. Let that sink in for a minute. There are national rankings for four-year-olds.

“The youth baseball system right now is broken,” Passan said. “A lot of the injuries that are happening these days can be traced back to things that were done as early as eight, nine 10 years-old.”
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Passan calls it “the commodification of the child.” He says the most shocking statistic he came across in his research was a study between 2007 and 2011 on all the Tommy John surgeries that took place to repair torn UCLs. A full 56.8 percent of them — more than half — were on 15 to 19 year olds.

“That is a bad sign,” he said. “That is a sign that this injury is trending younger, that arms are being hurt younger than ever. And baseball needs to do something to stop it.”[/quote][/quote]

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