Artificial turf potentially linked to cancer deaths of six Phillies ball players – report

The lawn replacement - largely fallen out of favor in professional sports these days - contains large amounts of toxic chemicals

A report on a possible link between a rare brain cancer that killed six professional US baseball players and toxic chemicals in artificial turf is raising a new round of questions over whether synthetic sports fields pose a health threat to athletes and others who use them.

The six athletes, who all died from glioblastoma, played most of their careers with the Philadelphia Phillies, a team that for decades competed on artificial turf in Veterans Stadium, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.