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‘The Amazon of Sports’ has already cornered baseball’s apparel market – and is now on the verge of subsuming baseball cards, too

The U.S. sports card industry is an estimated $12 billion market. Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty ImagesDuring spring training, Major League Baseball’s official uniform supplier, Fanatics, became a focal point for all the wrong reasons.

After arriving in Florida and Arizona, players began to complain about the quality of their new, Fanatics-manufactured uniforms.

Not having job flexibility or security can leave workers feeling depressed, anxious and hopeless

Warehouse employees frequently lack control over their own schedules. Andres Oliveira/E+ via Getty ImagesWhen employees don’t have control over their work schedules, it’s not just morale that suffers – mental health takes a hit too. That’s what my colleagues and I discovered in a study recently published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.

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