[chris s]

Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
I can't top these, but three stick in my memory.

(1) 1996, HS District Championship in the Knoxville, TN area. I have the plate, and this is a time before I become the gear junkie I am today. Working with a very substandard chest protector.

Pitcher on the mound throws in the 90s and would go on the following year to pitch Division I baseball. Other team is horribly overmatched. Pitcher throws, kid squares to bunt, and fouls it back into my collarbone. BLINDING pain. I dropped to one knee and was just coherent enough to tell my wife to stay off the field. Both partners come in to check on me but NEITHER offered to take my place.

Ordered my first West Vest the next day. Used it until last season.
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Must say I was smarter than you....He-he

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(2) Same summer. Local league, team makes a pitching change. I finish marking the card and was getting in position to take a look at a couple of the warmups when something smashes into my forearm. Turns out the on-deck batter was up "timing" the pitcher and wasn't watching where he was swinging. Of course, I was walking with my nose in the lineup card. Hurt like hell, but nothing broken. To this day I make sure that the ondeck hitter is in the ondeck circle during a change, especially after that Christensen thing in D-I a few years ago.
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Soon as second trip starts or skipper is making change,"you need to get in the circle...go away"
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(3) Summer of 1998. Working Legion game in rural Louisiana. Popup to short. I'm the BU. Pivot in and step in a hole. Foot stays in hole, rest of me keeps going. Violent twisting of ankle. Would find out months later that I turned it so hard a bone broke off the front of my ankle and lodged itself in the ankle joint. Arthroscopic surgery needed.

So, one from a ball, one from a bat, and one from the field. That covers it.
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Pivot on a double from "A", got the hole....torn meniscus...hurt, but workable...can't wait for football season!!!
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Rich