Today, the Baltimore-based writer is a contributing editor at Business Week. It surely wasn’t Ben.”įrom 1986-1997, Hyman was a reporter with the Baltimore Sun. Only one of us had anything to be disappointed about that evening.
Writes Hyman: “I watched with regret and, in short order, remorse, as an injured boy attempting to please his dad lamely lobbed balls at home plate. He writes about having his son, Ben, pitch in a baseball game despite being injured. In the book, Hyman does not shy away from what he describes as his own “unflattering” behavior. Their voices are rarely heard, and then only to justify the questionable judgment of adults.”
“Rather, the issue is our well-documented impulse to turn sports for children into a de facto professional league.” According to Hyman, “Only the kids are losers here. “It’s not the presence of adults that is distorting youth sports,” he writes. Hyman assigns much of the blame on parents, who have usurped control of youth sports. With each passing season youth sports seems to stray further and further from its core mission of providing healthy, safe and character-building recreation for children.” “Injuries are just one troubling manifestation. “Across the country, young players are all too frequent victims of a sports culture that seemingly is turning its back on them,” he writes in the introduction. In researching and writing the book, Hyman interviewed coaches, parents, children, psychologists, sports medicine experts and Olympic athletes.
His new book, titled “Until It Hurts: America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids” ( Beacon Press Amazon), is an indictment of what he sees as the myriad problems that have beset kids’ sports. On a beautiful July morning in 1991, three men gathered in a hotel suite for an informal breakfast and conversation.As a journalist, coach and sports parent, Mark Hyman has been immersed in the culture of youth sports.
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