Reddit reviews Death at the Ballpark: A Comprehensive Study of Game-Related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Baseball, 1862-2007
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Fun fact there is a book on amazon about every person that died at a baseball game between 1862 and 2007
>What kind of baseball did they play back then?
The type of baseball where Ty Cobb sharpens his cleats before sliding into second and beats a one-armed heckler in the stands with his prosthetic limb. Also, they didn't wear helmets while batting and spitballs were allowed... There's a book on the topic, Death at the Ballpark.
How do you feel about the 900+ recorded baseball-related deaths that have occurred over the years? Anyone who hits a hard ball with a bat must be crazy.
100% agree with you on accountability while at a ball game. Thank you for being respectful to me, which is more than can be said for pretty much all of the responses I've received today. Hat tip to you- sincerely.
I work in sports medicine, so I hate seeing people get hurt at all on a field or court- let alone off of it. Nobody should ever go to a ball game and leave with a skull fracture, especially not a kid who was just watching. That's my angle. Not trying to absolve anyone of responsibility, far from it. There's just no need to risk anyone getting seriously hurt at a baseball game.
My wife and I were interviewing babysitters for our kids last year and one was a girl who'd been let go because the husband of the family she had been working for was at a Cubs game in the upper tank and had a cardiac arrest and flipped backwards over the rails and into the lower bowl. There was that guy who went for a ball that poor Josh Hamilton tossed into the crowd, who then fell and broke his neck and passed, with his son watching. There's actually a book called "Death at the Ballpark" that a buddy of mine has raved about that I keep meaning to pick up. It's pretty common- lots of people die at ballparks.
Accidents are unavoidable and random and happen but I can't help but wonder what Albert Almora's opinion on netting is after what happened.