baseball

[weams]

https://twitter.com/BecksWelker/status/900863334907555840

 

 

[Chavez Ravine]

That's more old school than Cal Sr. getting knocked upside the head by the tractor crank.

[Number5]

15 hours ago, weams said:

https://twitter.com/BecksWelker/status/900863334907555840

 

 

When men were men.  LOL

[OFFNY]

o

 

One year later in 1920, Ray Chapman of that same Cleveland Indians team became the only on-field MLB fatality when he was struck in the head by an errant Carl Mays pitch, and died the next day in the hospital.

 

It was a tragedy all around, as what happened that day haunted Mays for the rest of his life, and the incident also very likely has kept him from being enshrined into the Hall-of-Fame.

 

The only good that came out of that incident is that baseball established a rule that required umpires to replace dirty baseballs regularly throughout the game ...... the ball that killed Chapman was VERY dirty. At that time, MLB had reasoned that continually using the same ball throughout the game was cost-effective. In fact, there was a rule which stipulated that any ball hit into the stands was to be returned by the fan who caught the ball, so that it could continue to be used in the game.

The incident was also influential in the banning of the spitball the very next season.

 

 

 

 

o

[byrdz]

Interesting, thanks for posting these stories!

[Can_of_corn]

On 8/25/2017 at 11:24 PM, OFFNY said:

o

 

One year later in 1920, Ray Chapman of that same Cleveland Indians team became the only on-field MLB fatality when he was struck in the head by an errant Carl Mays pitch, and died the next day in the hospital.

 

It was a tragedy all around, as what happened that day haunted Mays for the rest of his life, and the incident also very likely has kept him from being enshrined into the Hall-of-Fame.

 

The only good that came out of that incident is that baseball established a rule that required umpires to replace dirty baseballs regularly throughout the game ...... the ball that killed Chapman was VERY dirty. At that time, MLB had reasoned that continually using the same ball throughout the game was cost-effective. In fact, there was a rule which stipulated that any ball hit into the stands was to be returned by the fan who caught the ball, so that it could continue to be used in the game.

The incident was also influential in the banning of the spitball the very next season.

 

 

 

 

o

The rumors that he threw games probably hurt him as well.

I read this years and years ago.

[OFFNY]

On 8/25/2017 at 11:24 PM, OFFNY said:

o

 

One year later in 1920, Ray Chapman of that same Cleveland Indians team became the only on-field MLB fatality when he was struck in the head by an errant Carl Mays pitch, and died the next day in the hospital.

 

It was a tragedy all around, as what happened that day haunted Mays for the rest of his life, and the incident also very likely has kept him from being enshrined into the Hall-of-Fame.

 

The only good that came out of that incident is that baseball established a rule that required umpires to replace dirty baseballs regularly throughout the game ...... the ball that killed Chapman was VERY dirty. At that time, MLB had reasoned that continually using the same ball throughout the game was cost-effective. In fact, there was a rule which stipulated that any ball hit into the stands was to be returned by the fan who caught the ball, so that it could continue to be used in the game.

The incident was also influential in the banning of the spitball the very next season.

 

 

 

 

o

 

 

2 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

o

 

The rumors that he threw games probably hurt him, as well.

I read this years and years ago.

 

 

 

o

o

 

Thanks for that.

I have seen that book before, but have never read it.

I will buy it and read it now. 

 

o