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Episode E474

Good Activities for Men's Mental Health

We talk with Ethan Bryan, an author and baseball fan, about how "play" is helpful for mental health. Playing catch and getting outside can battle loneliness and be good for positive social activities.

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THE POWER OF PLAYING CATCH

My baseball career ended at the age of 16, as a junior varsity benchwarmer. I couldn’t throw as hard or run as fast as my teammates. But, that is still longer than most kids play these days. Now, by age 14, more than 70% of ballplayers have stopped playing ball. David Ogden is a researcher at the University of Nebraska. Of the steep decline in kids playing baseball near the age of 14, he wrote, “We are looking at a generation who didn’t play catch with their dads.”

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