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This MLB fan-danger problem should’ve been fixed 47 years ago
NYPost ^ | September 20, 2017

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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To: relictele

Far more dangerous to drive to the game.


21 posted on 09/20/2017 6:02:37 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: relictele

+1


22 posted on 09/20/2017 6:03:12 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: SMGFan

50 years ago a kid was killed. There light to be a law!


23 posted on 09/20/2017 6:06:10 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats want to teach anal sex in school. Republicans want to teach gun safety.)
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To: Axenolith

The NHL has netting. It works and you can still see.


24 posted on 09/20/2017 6:06:26 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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To: SMGFan

Jeez people.. It’s baseball. Anyone who goes to a game knows that balls are flying everywhere. Ignore the game at your peril.


25 posted on 09/20/2017 6:07:01 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

OMG. Excuse me but please leave baseball alone.


26 posted on 09/20/2017 6:08:17 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: SMGFan

weirdly tough night in the forum for america’s pastime.


27 posted on 09/20/2017 6:08:43 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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why are the Toronto blue jays in the mlb and are they crying?

yeesh


28 posted on 09/20/2017 6:09:39 PM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Count yourself fortunate if nets are all that happens to baseball.


29 posted on 09/20/2017 6:10:01 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: xrmusn

Football is MORE dangerous with helmets. Without protection men NATURALLY protect their head. With protection they use it for a battering ram.


30 posted on 09/20/2017 6:10:29 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: SMGFan

Pretty sure the MLB extended the netting just this year. I think it appears sufficient now.


31 posted on 09/20/2017 6:12:01 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: SMGFan
A tragedy. Whenever we attended as a family I sat closest to the plate in order to intercept balls--but ricochets are inevitable.

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.

32 posted on 09/20/2017 6:12:10 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

One death in how many decades and hundreds of thousands of games? Far more dangerous to cross the street in your own neighbourhood.


33 posted on 09/20/2017 6:14:10 PM PDT by littleharbour
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To: xrmusn

“upgraded to a single bar...”

You win the post of the day award.


34 posted on 09/20/2017 6:16:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I was “upvoting” the call out of the fallacy of dramatic example... :-)


35 posted on 09/20/2017 6:19:03 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

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?


36 posted on 09/20/2017 6:21:04 PM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: angcat

Seriously?


37 posted on 09/20/2017 6:21:37 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: angcat

That was not an infant.

Toddler, maybe.

Preschooler, maybe.

That not an infant.


38 posted on 09/20/2017 6:22:12 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Michael.SF.; Bullish

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


39 posted on 09/20/2017 6:23:49 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

I agree with that. Go back to leather coverings with no face mask, and leading with your head will cease


40 posted on 09/20/2017 6:25:19 PM PDT by Figment
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