Is baseball lethal? “Death rates historically are high for those playing, officiating, or watching baseball. Still, in the end, you could choose to see something slightly uplifting about the sheer volume of these freak and incomprehensible accidents. Take it as an indicator of just how much time Americans have spent on and around baseball fields over the last century and a half—of what baseball means to us. We’ve managed to die on the diamond in so many crazy ways only because it’s one of the places we’ve done the most living. We’ve all been shagging flies in that minefield together” [Slate]

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