Has any batter in pro baseball got hit by a baseball and die?

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Yes: Cleveland's Ray Chapman was hit by a pitch and died in the hospital. In 1920, during a New York Yankees-Cleveland Naps game, Yankee pitcher Carl Mays pitched a submarine ball to Chapman. The ball was roughed up pretty well (common practice at the time), went slightly outside the strike zone and struck Chapman in the temple.

Chapman never regained consciousness, and died about 12 hours later. According to Wikipedia, Chapman is the only player ever killed in a game. Other notable in-game deaths include umpire John McSherry, who keeled over dead of a heart attack behind the plate in 1996, and AA Tulsa Drillers coach Mike Coolbaugh, who was hit in the neck by a line drive in July 2007.

But Chapman is the only player (and thus the only batter) ever killed in-game. (Chapman photo from Wikipedia) Sources: Wikipedia, Tulsa World Joram's Recommendations Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Amazon List Price: $13.95 Used from: $3.88 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 350 reviews) Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns Amazon List Price: $179.99 Used from: $99.65 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 9 reviews) Video Chapman may have been the only batter killed by a pitch, but what about this poor pigeon? .

One player...Ray Chapman SS for the Cleveland Indians August 16 1920 One player has been killed by a pitched ball...Ray Chapman SS for the Cleveland Indians August 16 1920. The pitcher was Carl Mays of the NY Yankees. This was before batters started wearing batting helmets.

Since players started wearing batting helmets in 1956 no player has been killed. Ray is still the only player to be killed during a game. There have been other players who have been seriously injured after being beaned.

I know Don Zimmer has metal plate in his head from being hit. Last year a minor league 3rd base coach from the Colorado Rockies was kill by a batted ball...Mike Coolbaugh: http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/news/story?id=2945798 Base coaches are now required to wear batting helmets while coaching the bases. In my opinion the player most at risk for serious injury from being hit with a ball is the pitcher.

There have been more than a few pitchers in the past couple years that are lucky they are alive after being hit by a batted ball. The pitcher is only 60'6" from the batter and usually stride towards the plate so they end up at around 55 feet from the batter...add to the fact they are often off balance and are not ready to field a batted ball. They are in true danger.

Add to the fact that the hardest throwing pitcher may throw 100mph...a hard hit ball often exceeds 115mph off the bat. I do not think I would want to be a major league pitcher.

Ray Chapman in 1920... There has only been one death at bat in baseball. It happened in 1920 when shortstop Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch thrown by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays. This was far before batting helmets were introduced in the mid 50’s.

Since then, there have been several batters hit by a ball, and there has been some serious injuries, but no batter has been killed by a pitch since Ray Chapman. Other than the batter, the defensive baseball players on the field do not wear helmets or any protective gear, and are at risk of being seriously injured or even killed by a ball – not a pitch of course, but by a hit. Infielders are especially at risk to be injured by a line drive because of it’s speed and sharpness.

Line drives can be really dangerous, one fatal case was when Mike Coolbaugh (former Major League 3rd baseman for the Brewers & Cardinals) was killed last year during a minor league game, for which he was a first base coach. Because of this, all base coaches must wear helmets starting in ’08. (Which prob.

Wouldn’t have saved Coolbaugh anyways, since this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Coolbaugh says he was hit in the throat – but it’s still nice to know that protective measures are being introduced). My dad has a great book called “The Pitch that Killed” by Mike Sowell that I recommend you read if you are interested in the story about Ray Champan & Carl Mays. It’s a great book because a lot of significant things happened in baseball that year (1920), including: Babe Ruth being sold to the New York Yankees by the Boston Red Socks, Babe Ruth setting a new homerun record, The “Black Sox Scandal” (which was the incident in which 8 players from the White Sox were banned from baseball due to deliberately losing the 1919 world series because they had an arrangement with gamblers), and other historic baseball events.

Besides the fatal pitch, all of these other events are covered in the book, and you get to read about legends like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker…(just to name a few) & you have the start of the Yankees dynasty happening in the background. It’s a really great story to read and feel what was happening in baseball at the time. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Coolbaugh, my dad's baseball book collection :), loving old school baseball Michelley's Recommendations The Pitch That Killed Amazon List Price: $16.95 Used from: $10.00 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 11 reviews) .

Ray Chapman It has happened once. On August 16, 1920, Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was struck in the temple by a pitch from the Yankees' star pitcher Carl Mays. Chapman was declared dead the next day.

This was before the days of the batting helmet, so Chapman's head was completely unprotected. These days, all batters must wear a batting helmet, which includes a flap that covers the player's temple. This incident is still the only time a major league baseball player has ever been killed during the course of a game.

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Not immediately, AFAIK. Closest case I can think of is Tony Conigliaro -- a promising career cut short by a beanball. En.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Tony_Conigliaro baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ wiwi.essortment.

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I know that if a batter is hit by a pitch, he goes to first base, but what happens.

(weight, speed, weight distribution being same).

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