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Why there is crying in baseball, and tennis, and golf, and soccer ...

Marin Cilic broke down in tears during his loss to Roger Federer in the July 16 Wimbledon men’s final

AS MARIN CILIC BURIED HIS FACE IN a towel and started sobbing in the middle of the Wimbledon men’s final on July 16, few knew what he was going through better than a man watching the meltdown on TV nearly 4,500 miles away in Florida.

Mackey Sasser never played competitive tennis. But he did spend nine seasons as a major league baseball catcher, and it was during one of them, with the New

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