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Message: [QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 3996870, member: 34"] About 20 years ago or so.... Playing intramural softball while in the Navy. As a lefty I was normally a first basemen. If I had to play outfield I usually chose right since I didn't have the speed for center and left field gets too much action. Anywho, due to a bunch of no shows and other stuff I'm in RF and a player hits a flare over second basemen's head. Wind was blowing out. Second basemen is running out at full speed and I'm running in. We're both calling for the ball. I'm watching the ball and right as the ball is about to hit my glove, I woke up in the emergency room about an hour later. Second basemen was in the ER bed next to me. As the story is told to us, right as the ball was coming in to my glove we hit head on at full speed. I was a bit bigger and they said the second basemen instantly went limp and was out. Just fell like a sack of potatoes hitting a wall. I actually caught the ball, stumbled back a step or two and when I went to throw the ball in, I dropped. Neither one of us moved for a minute or so. Both of us KO'd. His face and nose smashed my teeth. I broke his nose and a couple of ribs. He put one of my front teeth in the back of my mouth. Teammates said the sound of us hitting was like a metal bat hitting an oak tree. [/QUOTE]