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42. The Upside of Quitting

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What Kind of Background Do You Have for Baseball Players?

An independent baseball and affiliated baseball guy's living checked ta check, struggling with whether they should go back to school. We followed a sample of the draft class of two thousand and one and so that's aboutits ten years. The person who plays baseball is making about forty % less, on average, ten years after they enter the game than the person who decides not to play baseball or just wanted a regular career.

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