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351. Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete

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The Dream Come True in Baseball

In baseball, roughly 90 % of the players drafted by major league clubs ever make it to the majors. The average player probably looks like an upper middle class kid who comes out of college or high school. When you're 25 playing an independent ball making less than two thousand dollars a month, living off your parents because you can't financially sustain selflike that. At some pointyou hav to say, look, i've got with no degree. I had less than associates degree at that point. Knowing when to quit is hard, especially if abandoning a lifelong dream means abandoning other things in life as well. Quitting an athletic dream is especially hard, because you should never give up on something

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