02335cam a2200349 i 4500 1164524386 TxAuBib 20161020120000.0 160726s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016303971 9780062400369 hardcover 0062400363 hardcover (OCoLC)913135780 YDXCP eng YDXCP rda BTCTA BDX OCLCQ ZQP JP3 CGP VP@ ON8 OCLCF OCLCQ DLC TxAuBib rda Passan, Jeff, author. The arm : inside the billion-dollar mystery of the most valuable commodity in sports / Jeff Passan. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] ©2016. viii, 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A Dead Man's Tendon -- Dummyball -- The Men Who Changed Baseball History -- Chimps, Quacks, and Freaks -- Young Guns -- Overuse, Underuse, and No Use -- Pay the Man -- The Second Time Around -- Rehab Hell -- Fear, Loathing, and Rotten Meat -- Land of the Rising Arm Injury Rate -- Changeup -- The Swamp of Possible Solutions -- Dog Days -- The New Frontier -- Spring. "Yahoo lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports -- the pitching arm -- and 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 pitchers -- five times more than the salary of every NFL quarterback combined. Pitchers are the game 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. 20161020. Pitchers (Baseball.) Arm Surgery. Arm Wounds and injuries. Baseball players. TXKIP