RIP Phil Hughes

[AiA in Atlanta]

Any baseball players died playing the game AiA?

dunno. why?

[Neferti]

We called it softball at school.

We also had to play cricket at school with the nuns. I have hated the game ever since and never watch it. Standing out in the sun all day hanging around wasn't my idea of sport or fun.

We played softball as well (also hockey, etc). In softball the size of the ball was a lot larger than a cricket ball. The rounders ball was about the same size as a cricket ball.

[Rorschach]

Any baseball players died playing the game AiA?

dunno. why?

Because it has more in common with Cricket than football.

[boxy]

Since helmets have been used in baseball, I don't think anyone has died from a "bean ball" (getting hit in the head) in pro games. There is a big difference though, baseball players will rarely try to hit a ball that is that far outside the "strike zone", and especially so when it's aimed at the body, as they get a free walk to first base if the ball contacts them at all. This means they're much more likely to cover up early. Cricketers need to be able to put away any loose high balls.

Apparently getting hit in the chest is more risky, especially in junior games. There's a quite comprehensive wiki article out there, about deaths in baseball.

[Rorschach]

It hit him in the head poxy how could it be "so far outside his strike zone"? Batters step away to avoid being hit. Batsmen will attempt a hook shot.
The games have much in common...
Pitcher/bowler, with a hard ball, a fast moving hard ball, a bat, a zone to protect
You can run when you hit the ball, wicket keeper/ backstop, fielders etc, etc, etc....

like I said... much in common between the games.

Still no stats eh.

AiA doesn't seem to know of any batters dying during a game, perhaps cricket is now a more dangerous sport. Oh and batsmen wear helmets too.

[boxy]

It hit him in the head poxy how could it be "so far outside his strike zone"? Batters step away to avoid being hit. Batsmen will attempt a hook shot.
The games have much in common...
Pitcher/bowler, with a hard ball, a fast moving hard ball, a bat, a zone to protect
You can run when you hit the ball, wicket keeper/ backstop, fielders etc, etc, etc....

like I said... much in common between the games.

Still no stats eh.

AiA doesn't seem to know of any batters dying during a game, perhaps cricket is now a more dangerous sport. Oh and batsmen wear helmets too.

You idiot.

[IQS.RLOW]

You are too kind, boxy.

[Rorschach]

It hit him in the head poxy how could it be "so far outside his strike zone"? Batters step away to avoid being hit. Batsmen will attempt a hook shot.
The games have much in common...
Pitcher/bowler, with a hard ball, a fast moving hard ball, a bat, a zone to protect
You can run when you hit the ball, wicket keeper/ backstop, fielders etc, etc, etc....

like I said... much in common between the games.

Still no stats eh.

AiA doesn't seem to know of any batters dying during a game, perhaps cricket is now a more dangerous sport. Oh and batsmen wear helmets too.

You idiot.

Got nothin' I see poxy...
My guess is IQS is ganging up with you so let me say this just in case he said something pathetic and predictable, as usual.
Tourettes... don't waste your time, I don't read you.

[IQS.RLOW]

You don't read it yet you respond at every opportunity to say you don't read it.

You confirm you're a fucking moron with every post.

[Super Nova]

With regards to baseball I found this.

Fatal fastballs to the head, meanwhile, aren't nearly as common as you'd expect. In the past 150 years, only one fan at a major league baseball game has been killed by a foul ball—a 14-year-old in Los Angeles named Alan Fish. The liner that fractured Fish's skull came off the bat of Dodger pinch-hitting specialist Manny Mota, whose own teenage nephew would be killed 14 years later while playing shortstop in New York—a coincidence Gorman and Weeks don't stop to note. Mota's nephew, a high-schooler, was struck by lightning as he stood in the field, five minutes after the umpire announced he was going to call the game at the end of the inning.


Lightning is another improbably frequent killer (though perhaps it's less improbable when you consider that baseball is played in summer, typically on flat fields surrounded by metal bleachers and fences). During a 1949 amateur game in Florida, the third baseman, shortstop, and second baseman were all killed by a single lightning bolt, which struck the backstop, then shot around the infield as though completing a double play.

Sounds like a pretty safe game compared to cricket. I spoke to the local Indians and Pakistani's who are mad about cricket and they conclude that since the introduction of the helmet the batter is probably more complacent and more aggressive when a loose balls goes high. Feeling safer with the helmet on when now. In the old days you would be tucking to save your life.

Baseball as Boxy said has little strategic benefit in trying to scare the batter with the equivalent of a bouncer. It would be a foul ball and a walk.

Imagine being hit in the head by a cricket ball which is just a little softer than a lump of concrete at a 100 miles and hour. (I remember Thomo being clocked at this)... your dead meat. Much riskier than baseball.