Posted on 09/20/2017 5:32:59 PM PDT by SMGFan
Every time we see a fresh version of the same terrifying picture, we hear the same thing from relieved broadcasters, fans, ballplayers. Every time a baseball leaves a bat — screaming at 100 miles an hour — and invades the seats where spectators are swilling sodas, scarfing nachos or texting friends, we hear the same: “One of these days, someone is going to get killed.”
Well, here’s the thing: someone already got killed. His name was Alan Fish, he was 14 years old, and on the night of May 16, 1970, he was sitting behind the visitor’s dugout at Dodger Stadium. In the bottom of the third inning, San Francisco’s Gaylord Perry threw a pitch that the Dodgers’ Manny Mota, batting right-handed, ripped foul. It reached the second row
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Far more dangerous to drive to the game.
+1
50 years ago a kid was killed. There light to be a law!
The NHL has netting. It works and you can still see.
Jeez people.. It’s baseball. Anyone who goes to a game knows that balls are flying everywhere. Ignore the game at your peril.
OMG. Excuse me but please leave baseball alone.
weirdly tough night in the forum for america’s pastime.
why are the Toronto blue jays in the mlb and are they crying?
yeesh
Count yourself fortunate if nets are all that happens to baseball.
Football is MORE dangerous with helmets. Without protection men NATURALLY protect their head. With protection they use it for a battering ram.
Pretty sure the MLB extended the netting just this year. I think it appears sufficient now.
Richie Ashburn fouled off a ball in the '50s that hit and injured a woman. After a delay, as they were stretchering her out he hit her again! He visited her in the hospital, invited her to meet the team once she recovered, and they became lifelong penpals.
One death in how many decades and hundreds of thousands of games? Far more dangerous to cross the street in your own neighbourhood.
“upgraded to a single bar...”
You win the post of the day award.
I was “upvoting” the call out of the fallacy of dramatic example... :-)
how many times has a car of bike plowed into a spectator at an event?
how many times day are there wrecks taking the tykes to school?
Seriously?
That was not an infant.
Toddler, maybe.
Preschooler, maybe.
That not an infant.
My second favorite moment from my favorite all-time favorite game. Manny Mota’s pinch hit double after 40 year old Vic Davilillo’s pinch-hit bunt single against the Phillies in the NL playoffs in 1977:
https://youtu.be/EoHlsdNDWOY?t=6775
I agree with that. Go back to leather coverings with no face mask, and leading with your head will cease
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