Sports

No other professional sport relentlessly pounds away at all its participants like the 162-games of a major league baseball season, and author Barry Svrluga’s book, The Grind: Inside Baseball’s

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Okay, so life is hard.

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Perhaps you never thought about major-league baseball as a monopoly, but it is.

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