For every pampered star in sports, there are who knows how many kids who get used, chewed up, and spat out by the system. A new book, Stealing Lives, looks at Major League Baseball's recruiting practices in Latin America as one of the more blatant examples of this.

Here's the news release about the book.

Here's the web site blurb about the book.

I'm not trying to promote the book, just throwing the topic out there for discussion.

[ February 03, 2003, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: danimal ]