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‘Marlon Byrd’s 2013 Season Left Me With A Haunting Question’: Jared Diamond On New Book, ‘Swing Kings’

(CBSNewYork)- “Anything like this, in every instance in something like this it starts with one thing: desperation.”- Jared Diamond

Major League Baseball has been in the midst of a homerun renaissance over the course of the last several years. The league’s home run record has been set twice in each of the last three seasons. The number of home runs we’re seeing each year have rocketed back to levels not seen since the steroid era of the late-90’s and early 2000’s.

The home run surge has left many of us wondering how we got here.