The Fatal Pitch That Changed Baseball
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- In 1920, Ray Chapman was hit in the head by a pitch from Carl Mays that would end up killing him. The pitch came as a result of decades negligence for player's safety and a time of pitching dominance. As a result of the tragic pitch, baseball made new rules to protect players and give the advantage to the hitters. Leading to a power surge with the likes of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Rogers Hornsby.
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This is the rest of the story. When Chapman passed away, he was replaced at shortstop by rookie Joe Sewell. Sewell was 21 years old at the time. Joe played 14 years and his last three were with the Yankees where he was a teammate of Gehrig and the great Ruth. He would eventually be in the Hall of Fame, and was and will always be known as the toughest out in baseball for he, (now get this one baseball fans), he struck out only 114 times in 8333 plate appearances. Now that is a record that will never be broken and is one of the most amazing in baseball.
Good thing the baseball professor didn't cover this 2 years ago. You even used the same photo in your thumbnail. Oh but the title of your vid is different by 1 word. So it's ok.
Get over it crybaby. There’s nothing new under the sun.
Wait is this video stolen?
@@cubsfanman-nx6pg highly doubt it. It’s a video about The guy who caused the biggest change in baseball history here
Carl Mays was inspired by Dizzy Dean?????? Anyone else catch that?
The wrong Dizzy. It was Dizzy Dismukes.
I did. Dean debuted in 1930, a good ten years later.
Reminds Doc Powers 1909 mysterious death
You would think that some type of head protection would be one of the rule changes, but that did not come until years later.
At that time players resisted head gear and that even went into the 1960s. Even though Major League Baseball made it compulsory for all players to wear batting helmets in 1971 , it grandfathered active players like Bob Montgomery to chose not to wear one. In 1979. he became the last player not to wear one.
Men were stronger back then. They weren't as strong? Why would that be? Why 75 MPH? Who says?
As always, interesting content on the channel.
The steriod era IMO ruined baseball,it out of whack with the balance of the game
My guy baseball would not be anywhere NEAR where it is today without the steroid era. Made the game entertaining for everyone and brought it back from its annual decline it was going through at the time
@nosmith0741 it's the tail end of the steroid era, from teams that often didn't pay stars like Florida (Miami now) and Oakland that influenced the modern game.
Both teams that's influence didn't go by the needle, but by in depth analysis that was basically thrown away in the 70s