They probably should have called the list "Most Difficult Sports" or something like that. But of course they want us to argue about this and comment on their website.
Hitting a major league pitch is possibly the "most difficult" thing to do in sports, and it takes a lot of nerve to stand in there, but really, "toughness" and baseball don't go together. Well, there is Pete Rose and Lenny Dykstra. They were tough guys. Both criminals, too, oddly enough.
The way soccer and basketball players flop around, it seems to the casual observer (me) that toughness is actually frowned on. "What were you doing out there? That guy nearly hit you and you didn't fall down! Take a seat".
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