Reporting from the Phillies camp in Spring Training 1970, and perhaps seeking something to talk about other than the standard training camp bromides, Ralph Bernstein of the Associated Press asked Phillies trainer Don Seger what concerned him the most in his line of work. Seger, who would be described by another reporter as a “chubby, soft-spoken man, whose pockets bulge with the tools of his trade— adhesive tape, forceps and ointments”, 1 rattled off a familiar list of musculoskeletal grievances: sore arms, hand and wrist injuries, and the hamstring gave him the most trouble. And of those, the hamstring stood out for its arbitrariness: While a sore arm might be prevented with proper care, the hamstring injury, per Seger, couldn’t be prevented.
Hamstrung in only one sense
