When Sliding for Home Plate, Go Feet First. Hot on the heels of last weeks study on the frightening prevalence of traumatic brain injury in footballand similar dangers that may lurk for players on the soccer fieldcomes new research on another playing field danger head first slides in baseball. The danger here isnt for players brains, however, but mostly for the delicate bones and tendons of their hands, as the New York Times reported this week. The study, published in May in The American Journal of Sports Medicine and funded in part by Major League Baseball, catalogued all major and minor league slides from 2.
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