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Attitudes and Beliefs towards Sport Specialization, College Scholarships, and Financial Investment among High School Baseball Parents

open access: yesSports, 2019
Adolescent athletes are increasingly encouraged to specialize in a single sport year-round in an effort to receive a college scholarship. For collegiate baseball, only 11.7 scholarships are available for a 35-player team.
E. Post, M. Rosenthal, M. Rauh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A small number of daily pitches induces shoulder and elbow injuries among high school baseball pitchers: a prospective study

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
Baseball players frequently injure their shoulders and elbows. Preseason risk factors for such injuries have been relatively well studied, but in-season risk factors are less known, and the relationship between the number of pitches and the incidence of ...
Hitoshi Shitara   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Learning Curve [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Presents findings from a five-year study of youth baseball pitchers' pitching methods, techniques, presence of pain, and injury occurrence.

core   +1 more source

How to Imagine Educational AI: The Filling of a Pail or the Lighting of a Fire?

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent advances in artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, generative AI) have led to increased interest in its application in educational settings. AI companies hope to revolutionize teaching and learning by tailoring material to the individual needs of students, automating parts of teachers' jobs, or analyzing educational data to ...
Michał Wieczorek, Alberto Romele
wiley   +1 more source

Shoulder and elbow pain in junior high school baseball players: Results of a nationwide survey.

open access: yesJournal of Orthopaedic Science, 2019
BACKGROUND Despite proposals and guidelines to prevent baseball injuries in young players by societies and organizations, many shoulder and elbow injuries continue to occur among junior high school baseball players.
K. Takagishi   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sports CEOs and Corporate Innovation

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a hand‐collected data set, we find that firms led by CEOs who were student‐athletes in college exhibit significantly superior innovation outcomes, as measured by patent numbers, citation counts, and the economic value of patents. Evidence from CEO turnover analysis supports a CEO imprinting interpretation.
Jaideep Chowdhury   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weighted-Ball Velocity Enhancement Programs for Baseball Pitchers: A Systematic Review

open access: yesOrthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2019
Background: Weighted-implement training utilizing over- or underweight baseballs has increased in popularity at all levels in competitive baseball. However, there is no consensus on the efficacy or safety of these training methods.
Jon-Michael E. Caldwell   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Our Reconciliationist Pastime: How Baseball Contributed to the Reunification of White America

open access: yes, 2016
As early as the 1850s, the game of baseball was being referred to as “our national game.” At a time when the nation was being ripped apart at the seams, it served as a relatively new symbol of national identity.
Lauck, Jeffrey L.
core  

Genetic and Ecological Management of Pacific Salmon Fisheries for the 21st Century

open access: yesFisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ecological adaptation theory, tremendous effort is being spent on measures that are eliminating salmon hatcheries and fishing opportunities with the intention of protecting wild runs deemed to be of particular genetic importance to the survival of the species.
Randall E. Brummett   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Une balle blanche dans un roman noir

open access: yesTransatlantica, 2012
In 1982 Paul Auster published a roman noir entitled Squeeze Play under the pseudonym of Paul Benjamin. The novel is also a “baseball novel”: its plot essentially deals with a baseball New York team and its former, fallen star, and the final resolution of
Sophie Vallas
doaj   +1 more source

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