Posted on 04/21/2014 5:19:34 PM PDT by kingattax
After taking a 90 mph fastball to the face during a Friday game, Houston Astros prospect Delino DeShields Jr. showed off his injuries online this weekend — and they’re not pretty.
The minor league center fielder was struck by the ball on the right side of his face during a game in Frisco, Texas. Miraculously he managed to walk off the field after sustaining the blow.
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Even though Tony C. made a comeback after missing 1968 (with 1969 an OK year, and 1970 a good year, after which it was essentially over), I always thought that injury contributed to his death.
Look how the ball just plops to the ground. All of its kinetic energy was transferred to that poor bird.
My oldest Brother was a great high school football running back. He was big, fast, and strong.
One night he had broken through the line and linebackers with only the safety left. The safety hit him right in the middle of the chest with the front of his helmet. He literally stopped Joe for a second. Then Joe got his feet going again and ran right over him.
A few days later Joe told me that the guy had hit him right where the shoulder pads lace up and it still really hurt. Joe died of a heart attack at age 59. I always wondered if that hit, had damaged his heart and eventually caused the heart attack. I really don’t know tho.
You're thinking of a different player, maybe it was Dave Winfield, I forget. He was in the outfield and threw a ball at a seagull that was wandering around on the field. Killed the bird, I think. Anyway, big trouble. Seagulls ARE a pest.
I’ve no idea. I don’t know how well the heart is able to repair itself if it takes damage. 59 is still well within heart attack range however. It’s one reason to start taking better care about 45 or so.
I wondered that about Tony C. Nine years after he took that hit to the head, he had a heart attack and went into a coma/vegetative state from which he never woke up to his death.
Joe had his first heart problems at around age 43. He had bypass surgery and also another type which I don’t completely understand what it was. He was working under his daughter’s Summer house when he had the attack. He died on the way to the hospital. It was a hot July day and I could not believe they had him working under that house on such a hot day.
They probably could not have stopped him tho.
Joe who was always my hero was as handsome as a movie star.
The bypass makes it sound vascular, affecting the heart but not directly caused by it. I’m no doctor, however. I don’t even play one on TV. 43 does sound sort of young to be worrying about these things though. Very unfortunate for him and you must feel the loss as well.
Yes, it affected us all, his siblings his wife and children and his Father but Mother was the one who was so hurt that she almost died.
We had to take her to the emergency room where they said her blood pressure was off the charts. They finally got her sedated and the next day she was OK. I remember at his funeral as we passed by, I thought to myself that Mother would have to take his hand and sure enough she did.
agreed. That hit was probably the worst I have ever seen. Thiessman’s knee in football was bad but not life threatening. I just remember how unbelievable it was that he even made it back to baseball
Carlton was a local legend up here in Maine.... I got to know him very well after he retired...Perfect gentleman...ever so humble...He died a few yrs back...we all miss him...he had some wonderful tales of the “Big League”
Only if the bird was a cardinal or an oriole
In 66 I went to scout quartz hill hs In the pressmen warm ups they were practicing form tackle. One player hit another with hid helmet and pushed food up somehow. The player died on the field when they could not get his lungs to expand and contract.
His helmet
Pregame warmups
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This thread is getting rather depressing
Switch to news threads and cheer up. Lol
Growing up a Detroit Lions fan, I’ll never forget when Chuck Hughes collapsed and died on the field...I still see the image of a frantic Dick Butkus signaling for someone to come to his aid.
I was throwing 92 in college before I got hurt. I hit a guy in the ribs one time on an 0-2 count and he told me it broke two of them.
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