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Athletes compete. Coaches coach. But what about the game within the game — the mental one?What separates greatness from failure?
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Can Sports Still Unite Us? Scott Reich on the Power of Baseball (opens the original)
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Episode 93 of The Mental Game features author Scott D. Reich, whose latest book, One Day in September: Baseball, Brotherhood, and the Birth of the All-Star Game , tells the remarkable story of a 1917 exhibition game at Fenway Park that brought together some of baseball’s biggest stars. In the midst of World War I, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Tris Speaker, Walter Johnson, Connie Mack and other legends took the field together — in the midst of a heated pennant race — for a fallen c
The Mental Game of World Cup Penalty Shootouts (opens the original)
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Episode 92 of The Mental Game features renowned sport and performance psychologist Dr. Paul McCarthy. Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. McCarthy is a world-renowned psychologist and senior lecturer with over 25 years experience with athletes, coaches, and teams, including a role as the inaugural resident sport psychologist at St Andrews, the “home of golf.” In the midst of a FIFA World Cup full of dramatic penalty shootouts (Paraguay v. Germany, Morocco v. The Netherlands, Egypt v. Australia, Swit
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