TIL in 1976 , LA Dodgers catcher Steve Yeager was impailed in the throat by San Diego Padre's Bill Russell's broken bat, resulting the the MLB issuing a throat guard rule for catchers. sabr.org Submitted by superfly355 t3_y53kyc on October 16, 2022 at 12:58 AM in todayilearned 15 comments 298
Apprehensive_Tea_106 t1_isize09 wrote on October 16, 2022 at 10:21 AM Holy shit. I have never heard of this before. Can you imagine being a kid enjoying your first baseball game and seeing a guy spurting blood out of his neck on a fluke? Permalink 2
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