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Jun 2024
21m 8s

52. Little League

Freakonomics Network & Zachary Crockett
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Youth baseball — long a widely accessible American pastime — has become overrun by $10,000-per-year, for-profit travel leagues. Zachary Crockett peers inside the dugout. 
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