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Was Paul Blair's eye injury while at bat the reason batting helmets were started in 1971?
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Not really. Beanings have been part of Baseball since day one. Unfortunately, baseball was slow to require the mandatory use of helmets. There has been one death due to an injury that occurred on the diamond .... that was in 1920 when Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman lost his life due to a beaning. One might think that helmets would have been made mandatory after that but they weren't. The first team that made their players wear helmets was the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers who earlier had two players, Joe Medwick and Pee Wee Reese, severely injured because of beanings. While these helmets helped to protect the batter, they had no earflap. Even though helmets were made mandatory in 1971, earflaps were not made mandatory until 1983. Hall of Fame Catcher Roger Bresnahan played between 1897 - 1915. Bresnahan most notable contributions to the game were in protective equipment. In 1905 after getting "beaned" in the head with a baseball began experimenting with head gear similar to the leather football helmet of the period that were made by A.J. Reach. Sliced vertically: one half for covering the left side of a right handed batter's head, the other for the lefty hitter. Two years later in 1907 he devised catcher's shin guards.
He was the only catcher using them. Ignoring the ridicule, it was not thought to be gentlemanly to use them. By 1909 the design was refined, and became accepted, and more wildly used. I will leave a link below for more information. -Steven KeyMan
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