Death at the Ballpark

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  • ISBN 9780786479320
  • Weight: 608g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Oct 2015
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game's history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime.

In its second edition, this ground-breaking study provides the known details for 150 years of game-related deaths, identifies contributing factors and discusses resulting changes to game rules, protective equipment, crowd control and stadium structures and grounds. Topics covered include pitched and batted-ball fatalities, weather and field condition accidents, structural failures, fatalities from violent or risky behavior and deaths from natural causes.

Robert M. Gorman is a retired university reference librarian with more than 40 years of professional research experience. He lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The late David Weeks was a former research librarian at Winthrop University’s Dacus Library. He and Robert Gorman received the McFarland–SABR Baseball Research Award in 2003 for the article “Foul Play: Fan Fatalities in Twentieth-Century Organized Baseball.” He lived in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

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