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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids and step kids are not allowed to play any contact sports - football, lacrosse, soccer, hockey, etc.

All concussions are extreme. [/quote]

Random question but would you let them play baseball? Not contact sport but still potential for injury.[/quote]

Isn't there a lot of standing around in baseball? It doesn't seem an activity that promotes cardio.[/quote]

You don’t know baseball well at all apparently.

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My oldest nephew ended up with 6 concussions as a result of hockey, lacrosse, and skiing. The ski fall was so minor that nobody thought anything of it until he was dizzy and sick later that night.  His doctor said it was due to the cumulative effects of the prior concussions.
Anyway, not only did they end his athletic career but they took their toll on his academic life too. Ended up barely graduating high school and could not get close to being successful in college.

I decided if my teens end up with one concussion, team athletics and possibly dangerous individual sports are done. [/quote]

Agreed that I am no baseball expert, but this article says that there is an average of 18 minutes of action in a typical MLB game, so about 9 minutes for each team over the course of three hours. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/theres-about-18-minutes-of-action-in-your-average-mlb-game/#:~:text=Over%20at%20the%20Wall%20Street,minutes%20of%20actual%20baseball%20action. There seems to be a lot of bench warming and standing in the outfield with brief spurts of activity. The pitcher and catcher get more action I can see.

By contrast, in an hour long cross country race, each kid gets about an hour of aerobic exercise, which adds up to thousands of minutes of activity per race.[/quote]

There’s more to athletics than cardio minutes. Once you learn the [b]strategy[/b] of baseball, you realize there is no better game out there.[/quote]

Hit ball with bat.  Repeat.[/quote]

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