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CTE Found in First Baseball Player

Bad News for Brains

First time the disease was found in MLB.

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First NFL, now MLB? Boston University researchers say Ryan Freel suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy before he committed suicide last year. Freel is the first professional baseball player to be diagnosed with CTE, a degenerative brain disease.

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