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batting helmets

Because you can put brains on a bookshelf

June 3, 2011

After they spill out of the player’s head when he’s hit by a pitch… Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner waxes nostalgic about the more macho players of his generation and their disdain for batting helmets. Back in the day, Major Leaguers had to walk 15 miles to the ballpark and back, up hill each way. […]

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* Because you can keep a batting helmet on your bookshelf…

August 13, 2009

This piece on a new generation of protective gear from The New York Times. The macho-ness of the athlete still prefers cool over safety. But ask some of the poor guys who were badly injured by bean balls to see if they might not have wanted one of these babies. …[I]t is hard to predict […]

Tagged as: baseball equipment, batting helmets

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