Youth Single-Sport Specialization in Professional Baseball Players.
Buckley PS, Ciccotti MC, Bishop M, Kane P, Selverian S, Exume D, D'Angelo J, Emper W, Freedman KB, Hammoud S, Cohen SB, Ciccotti MG.
Buckley PS, et al.
Orthop J Sports Med. 2020 Mar 20;8(3):2325967120907875. doi: 10.1177/2325967120907875. eCollection 2020 Mar.
Orthop J Sports Med. 2020.
PMID: 32232067
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CONCLUSION: This study challenges the current trends toward early youth sport specialization, finding that the majority of professional baseball athletes studied did not specialize as youth and that those who did specialize did so at a mean age of 14 years. With the potential cum …
CONCLUSION: This study challenges the current trends toward early youth sport specialization, finding that the majority of professional base …