Baseball Coaches Sport Helmets as a Safety Measure

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4 G 907 Ab Witnesses say Mike Coolbaugh's hands had only begun to rise when a batted baseball struck him on the left side of his neck, causing the fatal rupture of an artery. That's how defenseless Coolbaugh stood in the first-base coach's box during the ninth inning of a July 22 Minor League Baseball game in North Little Rock, Ark. The Tulsa Drillers coach was fewer than 90 feet from the left-handed batter's box, from which Tino Sanchez pulled a pitch into foul territory at a tragic velocity.

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