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| Created | 2018-12-28 | ||||
| Owner | sherry2018love | ||||
| Title | The time a Hall of Famer knocked out a H | ||||
| Description | Mickey Mantle inadvertently knocked out Rogers Hornsby's son in a Cla s D game on August 28, 1949.Mantle was a promising 17-year-old outfielder playing for the Independence Yankees. Bill Hornsby, the son of the all-time great Rogers Hornsby, Chris Sale Alternate Cool Base Jersey wasa 23-year-old center fielder for the Carthage Cubs. Their teams met that nightat Municipal Park in Carthage, Mo., a nice field with bright lights that opened 11 years earlier.MORE: Nine quirky '90s minorleague logos | The time a batter knocked himself out "Mantle hits a high fly ball to deep center field. The ball comes down and hits Hornsby right in the head," Mantle biographer and former Carthage bat boy John Hall toldThe Carthage Pre s newspaper. "Mantle ended up getting an inside the park home run on the play. The team Dustin Pedroia Cool Base Player White Jersey doctor had to go out and check on Hornsby, but he was okay."The hard-headed official scorer considered giving Hornsby an error, but decided to give Mantle a home run, The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball confirmed.Mantle went on to Xander Bogaerts Jerseys hit 536 major league home runs, while Hornsby played two more years in the minors with a bump on his head and never reached the majors.Tim Hagerty is the broadcaster for the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas, and is on Twitter at @MinorsTeamNames . He is also the author of"Root for the Home Team: Minor League Baseball's Most Off-the-Wall Team Names." | ||||
| Consumption | l/mile | ||||
| Broken | No | ||||
| Price | $ | ||||
| Promotion level | None | ||||
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