Web-based plan designed to provide trainers with more info

By John Schlegel / MLB.com

From the moment a player joins any organization in Major League Baseball, his baseball vital signs are well documented. With radar-gun readings, scouting reports and countless game statistics seemingly charting his every move, there's literally a book on every professional player.

For a trainer, the medical book needed on a player hasn't always been as accessible or as thorough, his vital signs sometimes harder to read.

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Hootons bring message to youth as part of PLAY

By JORDAN GODWIN Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle

July 7, 2009, 10:41PM

Like his father, Don Hooton, Jr. is committed to telling his brother’s tragic story to America’s youth.