09-03-2021, 08:56 AM
(09-03-2021, 08:36 AM)TBP Wrote: Is it really still a problem with the modern lighter balls, rather than the heavy, water-logged, leather balls of Jeff Astell's day?
I read somewhere that the thinking is that the modern ball is much lighter, flies through the air faster so the impact in some ways is potentially greater. They're no Mitre Multiplex I'll grant you, but any continuous impact is going to cause later problems with the brain. I only started licking windows five years after I stopped playing so there's something in that...