Anthropometric characteristics of columbia, south carolina, youth baseball players and dixie youth world series players

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 179-188

  French, Karen E ^a   Spurgeon, John H ^a   Nevett, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball; Growth and maturation; Relative age

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BASEBALL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547331961     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2007.10599415     Document Type: Article

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