| BuddyRo |
| Quote: Ray Chapman, shortstop for the Cleveland Naps from 1912-20, holds the distinction as the only baseball player to have been killed during a game. If you're thinking Billy Wagner in Game 2 of the NLCS, I mean killed as in dead or no longer living. Chapman was a scrappy and speedy ball player who was known to crowd the plate. In a game against the Yankees on August 16, 1920, Yankee submarine pitcher Carl Mays threw one high and inside. Chapman froze and got drilled in the head so hard, Mays thought the ball had hit the bat, fielded it and threw to first. Chapman, knocked unconscious, was carried off the field and died the next day in a New York hospital. He was 29 years old. |
man, talk about taking one for the team! |
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| Lidle is an asshole, couldn't happened to a better guy. |
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| RLM6370 |
| What no Lyman Bostock on the list |
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| Swede |
| Quote: Ed Delahanty, who played from 1888-1903, ranks third on the all-time Major League leaders in career batting average. "Big Ed" was the best hitter of his day, winning batting titles in both the American and National League, ending his career as the single season doubles leader (55 in 1899), holding the distinction as the only player to have a four-homer game and a four-double game and was inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945. Ed Delahanty was no joke. I can't say the same, however, about the way he died. Big Ed, like many players of his time, liked to drink heavily. On July 2, 1903, Delahanty boarded a train bound for New York to go play for the Giants. Ed got hammered on the train, whipped out a blade and started threatening other passengers. The conductor kicked him off the train at Niagara Falls. A drunken Delahanty attempted to cross the International Bridge over the Niagara River and is believed to have fallen off the bridge into the falls. Any player's death in which the deceased is found at the bottom of Niagara Falls qualifies as a mighty strange baseball death. |
wow, my hometown made it on the list..... |
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| Bubba-vegas |
Quote: Originally posted by RLM6370
What no Lyman Bostock on the list |
He should've made this list, even tho the subject matter isn't real intriguing, as he was murdered during the 1978 season in a drive by shooting. The Angels franchise had a string of tragedies that hovered above their halos like the Black Sunday (the Henderson homerun in '86) that haunted their no-pennant jinx . Dick Wentz was a pretty good pitcher who died of a brain anneurism in the 1960s at a young age, and then a eerie string of auto accidents took the lives of infielder Chico Ruiz, prospect Bruce Heinbechner, and budding star Mark Miley within a few years in the '70s, and then Bostock's death really sent jitters thru Anaheim as he was competent .300 hitter during his short career at Minny and Anaheim.
Quote: Originally posted by some dipshit
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Lidle is an asshole, couldn't happened to a better guy |
Anyone that glorifies the death of a person in this matter is among the lowest scum of the earth |
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| sorabji_66 |
drive-by isn't quite the term i'd use for Bostock's murder...
he was killed by the estranged husband of the woman in the car with him. |
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| RLM6370 |
Quote: Originally posted by sorabji_66
drive-by isn't quite the term i'd use for Bostock's murder...
he was killed by the estranged husband of the woman in the car with him. |
Following the game, as he regularly did when in Chicago, Bostock visited his uncle, Thomas Turner, in nearby Gary, Indiana. After eating a meal with a group of people on this Saturday night, Bostock got in the back seat of his uncle's car. As the vehicle was stopped at a traffic signal at the intersection of 5th and Jackson streets, a car pulled up along side them. The driver of the second car got out and fired one blast of a .410 caliber shotgun into the back seat where Lyman Bostock was sitting. The assailant, Leonard Smith, did not even know Bostock. His lethal wrath was intended for his estranged wife, Barbara Smith, who was along with the group as a guest of Bostock's uncle, who happened to be her godfather. The blast missed the woman but struck Bostock in the left temple, and he died two hours later at a Gary hospital. Lyman Bostock, Jr. was just 27 years old. It was later discovered that Bostock had known the woman in the car for a total of 20 minutes.
Leonard Smith was tried twice for murder, with his lawyers arguing that Barbara Smith's infidelity had driven her husband insane. The first trial resulted in a hung jury. In the second trial, Leonard Smith was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was committed for psychiatric treatment. Within seven months, he was deemed no longer mentally ill by his psychiatrists and released, a free man. Including his time in jail awaiting and during trial, Smith's total time in custody amounted to only 21 months. |
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| tommyp |
Quote: Originally posted by RLM6370
Following the game, as he regularly did when in Chicago, Bostock visited his uncle, Thomas Turner, in nearby Gary, Indiana. After eating a meal with a group of people on this Saturday night, Bostock got in the back seat of his uncle's car. As the vehicle was stopped at a traffic signal at the intersection of 5th and Jackson streets, a car pulled up along side them. The driver of the second car got out and fired one blast of a .410 caliber shotgun into the back seat where Lyman Bostock was sitting. The assailant, Leonard Smith, did not even know Bostock. His lethal wrath was intended for his estranged wife, Barbara Smith, who was along with the group as a guest of Bostock's uncle, who happened to be her godfather. The blast missed the woman but struck Bostock in the left temple, and he died two hours later at a Gary hospital. Lyman Bostock, Jr. was just 27 years old. It was later discovered that Bostock had known the woman in the car for a total of 20 minutes.
Leonard Smith was tried twice for murder, with his lawyers arguing that Barbara Smith's infidelity had driven her husband insane. The first trial resulted in a hung jury. In the second trial, Leonard Smith was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was committed for psychiatric treatment. Within seven months, he was deemed no longer mentally ill by his psychiatrists and released, a free man. Including his time in jail awaiting and during trial, Smith's total time in custody amounted to only 21 months. |
If that is, in fact, the true story behind his murder, I'm appalled.
This death should be number one on that list. |
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| Headless Ted Williams? |
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