The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

from nmele

As I was reading this, my hometown team, the Seattle Mariners, kept losing pitchers to injury. As I write, all but one of their five regular starters is on the DL because of injuries. Passan's book explains why highly paid pitchers suffer frequent injuries through multiple lenses: baseball mythol...

from rosalita

Passan, a longtime sportswriter most recently for Yahoo Sports, spent three years learning everything he could about baseball pitchers, and more specifically, the throwing arms of baseball pitchers. A great pitcher commands enormous salaries, and this despite the fact that serious elbow injuries ...

from kcshankd

Read with alternating periods of horror and fascination. The 13 year-old really likes to pitch, may need to look up DriveLine (not far away) once he gets a chance to read the book.

from wearyhobo

I like Passan's sentences and paragraphs, and the narrative thread of the rehabs of Daniel Hudson and Todd Coffey was compelling, especially the deeper dive into the emotional component, but the other pieces of the book didn't hang together in a cohesive whole for me. The Jon Lester chapter is a ...

from Othemts

The subtitle of this book is Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports and "mystery" is an important word.  No one knows for sure why some pitchers can gain incredible endurance and others are prone to injury.  Practices for building arm strength and preventing in...