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Heck, it even happens in the pros. These injuries are few and far between, but off the top of my head I remember the exact same thing happening to Davey Concepcion and Robin Ventura.
One of the grisliest injuries I ever saw on the field involved metal cleats. The third baseman on my adult baseball team went to tag a sliding runner. The runner's foot hit his glove, then climbed right up his forearm like it was going up a ramp.
The result was an eight inch long gash that looked like someone had taken a scalpel to his arm. The top layer skin split wide open and the gash was a couple of inches wide in the middle. You could see different layers of tissue and muscle under the top layer of skin.
Suprisingly, it was a clean cut and there was very little blood. Guess it didn't hit a vein or artery.
That was a one time thing. Besides a few minor cleatings, I've never seen anything to that degree before or since.
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