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At six years old, our son had friends who played soccer from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M., Monday through Friday. A six-year-old practicing as much as a Division I athlete.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: Athlete Division Friday Friends Had Monday Much Old Our Played Practicing Six Soccer Son Through Who Years

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I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: Athletics Changed Emphasis How Like Looking Measure Metric Money Most Much Nothing Our Six Societal Sports Started Tangible Then Things Turned Using Which Wondered Youth

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It's common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known or understood is how the advent of these riches has seeped into the conscious and unconscious ways in which our society now parents children.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: Advent Athletes Children Common Conscious Earn Extraordinary How Incomes Knowledge Known Less Now Our Parents Professional Riches Society Unconscious Understood Ways Which

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A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: About Average Baseball Comparison Fifty First Held Hundred Hundred Years Income Last Multiple National Over Players Professional Professional Baseball Salary Shows Steady Times Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 25th, 1971

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