Baseball too had its brushes with death.
The on-the-field collapse of Damar Hamlin in Cincinnati dredged up harrowing flashbacks of the Detroit Lions' Chuck Hughes' lifeless body on the ground in a 1971 game against the Bears.
Of course, you saw death on television all the time, on detective shows and westerns. It was also on the news constantly, especially during those Vietnam years. But because this was sports, which I watched incessantly in those days, this was different. Death was the last thing you expected to encounter during a game.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service These jarring intrusions of death into the realm of spectator sports left their impressions on my developing brain. They even influenced my viewing choices -- to this day I don't watch auto racing.
Fewster, who suffered a concussion, a skull fracture and a blood clot on his brain, was saved by an operation in which doctors removed a piece of his skull and inserted a silver plate in his head.
Only seven pitches into the game, Montreal's Rondell White was at the plate, when McSherry, the home-plate umpire, walked away from the plate motioned to the other umpires. He then collapsed on the warning track in front of a tunnel near the backstop.
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