How much baseball time do baseball players watch when not at the ballpark? | Sports
NEW YORK – Baseball players work very strange hours.
Usually the televised part of their working day starts at 7 p.m., but there is a lot of unprecedented preparation before that, with many players showing up at the stadium around six or seven hours before the first pitch.
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