“So I went and got him.” Outfielder Jim Rice carries injured Jonathan Keane to the Red Sox dugout during a 1982 game.
“I asked what happened,” Rice says, remembering that day this summer on the 40th anniversary of the incident. He took the boy out of his seat, rushed him to the Red Sox lockerroom and made sure he received treatment from team physician Arthur Papas before an ambulance whisked him away to Boston Children’s Hospital. 7, 1982, almost certainly did when the former American League Most Valuable Player and future member of the Baseball Hall of Fame raced into the stands to grab a 4-year-old boy who had been hit in the forehead by a foul ball off the bat of Red Sox shortstop Dave Stapleton.Īs everyone else sat horrified, Rice acted. What Boston Red Sox outfielder Jim Rice did on Aug.
None of those events saved a life, however.
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Bush’s first pitch at Yankee Stadium after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and anything Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby endured on the field during the 1947 season when they integrated professional sports. It was one of the most heroic moments in Major League Baseball history, up there with Rick Monday saving the American flag from protesters who were trying to set it on fire in the outfield of Dodger Stadium, President George W.
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