[sumo] [getting off-topic] Police To Charge Tokitsukaze Oyakata

[Earle Jones]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Kuramarujo wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 06:53 -0700, Keri Sibley wrote:
>
>> Baseball has a dark side as well, and the commissioner has done
>> nothing about it. You see on ESPN at a minimum of once or twice a  
>> week
>> of an incident where a pitcher throws a baseball high and tight, or
>> even at a batters head. The pitcher does it on purpose. Is someone
>> going to have to get killed for it to stop?


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"Somebody" has already been killed.  Read "The Pitch That Killed" by  
Michael Sowell.

   "On August 20, 1920, Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was killed by a  
pitch thrown by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays - still the only fatality  
in a major league baseball game.

This event is mentioned in passing whenever someone is seriously hurt  
by a pitch. It is not, however, a well-chronicled event in the long  
history of the game. So it's good to see Michael Sowell give this  
story the attention it deserves in this fascinating book."

For more:

http://www.amazon.com/Pitch-That-Killed-Mike-Sowell/dp/0020747616

"Amazingly, this tale has not been dramatized. Why not? This story  
has many ideal elements for the big screen:

* We have a tragic hero, a triumphant hero and a villain, yet none  
are well known.
* The villain plays for the Yankees.
* Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Joe Jackson, the Black Sox scandal, and the  
birth of the Yankee dynasty are in the background.
* The fatal beaning takes place in the heat of a thrilling pennant race.
* The Indians, Yankees, and Mays must cope with something that has  
never happened before or since.
* Despite the tragedy, the good guys win the pennant and the World  
Series. Somewhere, Chapman is smiling.
* Did I mention that in the World Series, our heroes produce the  
first grand slam, the first home run by a pitcher, and an UNASSISTED  
TRIPLE PLAY - all in one game?
* Chapman becomes a martyr. Sowell becomes a Hall of Famer. Mays  
becomes a pariah, blackballed from Coopertown.

Sounds like good movie material to me. A good director could make his  
reputation with this."

earle
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