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Originally posted by chris s
why would an ump need head protection, unless he's blinkin and dancin back there?
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Three times in my life I have seen umpires get struck in the head with a bat. Once was in Major League Baseball. The other two in local games. One of them was a broken wooden bat.
I'm considering going with a helmet. A lot of our leagues, MSBL and Rhode Island Amateur League to name two, have gone to wooden bats. I've been struck twice by broken bats, once on the arm, the other on the leg. Neither caused injury because they barely grazed me, but the one that hit my leg tore a small hole in my plate pants where the jagged end hit me near the top of my leg guard.
I have a real concern that I'm going to take one in the noggin one of these days.