Baseball, the National Pastime, the game that many things are as American as, is bad for children according to a new study published by the Hastings Institute, an independent health-awareness group. From promoting feelings of inadequacy to long-term physical effects, the once-loved sport has now come under scrutiny for enabling the kind of negative outcomes it until recently was thought to combat.
"Game playing is basically bad," writes Glenn Headlynn, spokesman for the Institute. "Kids have to wait inordinate amounts of time to take their turns, they learn failure from striking out, and the intense stress of "winning" or "losing" may lead to depression, poor self-image, anti-social behavior, murder, hoof-in-mouth disease, poor posture, stuttering--the list goes on."
Headlynn referred to the results of a week-long study that aggregated data from several youth baseball games in rural Ohio. Critics cited the brief length and breadth of the study and its seemingly almost total lack of data and scientific rigor.
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