Facing the Yips

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 5, 2017

Rick Ankiel, a major-league pitcher turned outfielder with the St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals and the author of (with Tim Brown) of The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life (Public Affairs, 2017), tells his story of a pitching career upended by a case of "the yips," the mystery of its cause, and his many efforts to overcome it.

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