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June 13 – In an American League baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers at Navin Field, Yankees batter Bob Meusel was hit in the ribs with the first pitch he faced, to which Muesel responded by walking to the mound and throwing a punch at pitcher Bert Cole; Muesel was restrained by umpires Billy Evans and Red Ormsby ...
During the 1985 season, Buckner started all 162 games and shattered his own big league record with 184 assists. Toward the end of the 1986 season, he was hobbled by leg injuries and struggled throughout the playoffs. In 1986, it appeared that the Boston Red Sox's fortunes were about to change.
According to one estimate, 35,000 cheer athletes are injured each year. Tips for cheerleaders to avoid concussions, handle sport's unique challenges.
Eight players and three club staff members were killed when their plane's takeoff failed during a snowstorm. Two of the surviving players received career-ending injuries. [10] 14 August 1958: Egypt national fencing team: Fencing: KLM: Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation: Atlantic Ocean off Ireland: 99: 6: Six players killed. 16 July 1960
I'd always thought of football as the most hazardous sport in high school, but a new report from the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Cheer Safety Foundation, has opened my ...
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For all the injuries plaguing baseball's modern era, players are also recovering from them better, and more consistently, than ever, according to Dodgers head physician Neal ElAttrache.
On October 9, 1996, the Yankees trailed the Orioles 4–3 in the bottom of the eighth inning when shortstop Derek Jeter hit a deep fly ball to right field. Right fielder Tony Tarasco moved near the fence and appeared "to draw a bead on the ball" [4] when the then-12-year-old Maier clearly reached over the fence separating the stands and the field of play nine feet below and snatched the ball ...