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4. Time for pitchers to wear helmets. Hockey goalies used to play sans-helmet...

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 02:22 PM

Aug 2021

until goalies took the initiative and started creating their own protection.

Baseball catchers wears protection, as do the batter and umpire. A pitcher could wear a helmet similar to a batter's helmet with an added grill covering the face.

It's a no-brainer. Should've been done long ago.

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