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Carl William Mays (November 12, 1891 – April 4, 1971) was an American baseball pitcher who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1929. [1] During his career, he won over 200 games, 27 in 1921 alone, and was a member of four World Series-champion teams.
Raymond Johnson Chapman (January 15, 1891 – August 17, 1920) was an American baseball player. He spent his entire career as a shortstop for the Cleveland Indians.. Chapman was hit in the head by a pitch thrown by pitcher Carl Mays and died 12 hours later.
The Pitch That Killed: Carl Mays, Ray Chapman and the Pennant Race of 1920 is a non-fiction baseball book written by Mike Sowell and published in 1989. The book concentrates on the 1920 major league season, especially the events surrounding Ray Chapman's death from a pitch thrown by Carl Mays.
The mud’s origin story is rooted in tragedy. In a game in August 1920, New York Yankees pitcher Carl Mays fired a ball toward Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman and hit him in the head. The ball ...
Mike Sowell is a sports historian and the author of three baseball books, including The Pitch That Killed about Ray Chapman and Carl Mays.Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times in 1989, [citation needed] and winner of the CASEY Award for best baseball book of 1989, [1] The Pitch That Killed tells the story of the only on-field fatality in major league baseball history, when the ...
Yankees pitcher Carl Mays, another of several ex-Red Sox players who had come the Yankees' way, used a "submarine" (underhand) pitching style. He threw one up and in on Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman, who tended to crowd the plate and apparently never saw the ball coming. Chapman suffered a severe skull fracture, and died the following morning ...
Tracy Chapman is finally getting a new moment in the awards spotlight, 35 years after the release of her biggest hit, "Fast Car." The two gave an emotional performance at the GRAMMYs on Sunday ...
Lawless, Molly (2012), Hit by Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball, McFarland, ISBN 9780786484843 Lennox, Doug (2010), Now You Know Baseball , Dundurn, ISBN 9781770705883 Light, Jonathan (2005), "Deaths", The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball , McFarland & Company, pp. 246– 250, ISBN 0-7864-2087-1