Amazing story! #shorts #mlb

[christesta]

Amazing player!!! Now that's dedication!!! His passion for baseball was incedible!!!

[johnstickles]

The Ken Burns documentary on baseball was excellent. If your a fan of the game and it's history give it a watch this story and others like it are priceless.

[opieshomeshop]

WOW. I used to watch thats incredible and there was a blind guy, spent his whole life blind. He used to mow his lawn with a rope tied to a post and his mower. One day, he got hit my lightening, and he got his sight for the first time in his life. He's probably long passed away now but was a true story.

[johnlansing]

A generation who had a near death experience and got up and went back to work with a grin . Damn tough .

[jc]

Incredible! He was determined to finish the game and he did blackened chest and all.

[EdwardFreeman-cv]

I've been a baseball fan since 1957 and I never heard that lightening strike story before. The Cleveland infielder they also mentioned, Ray Chapman, would in 1920 be beaned by Yankee pitcher, Carl Mays. Chapman died shortly thereafter. The only death caused by a baseball game.

[michaelpage]

Ironically Ray Chapman died from being struck by a pitch from Carl Mays at the Polo Grounds New York in August of 1920.

[donallan]

What an amazing story. A true competitor .

[abidababida]

Thats a scary man! He gives new definition to the term “Bad Ass”!

[richardhausig]

That bolt was probably for Chapman. He was killed at the plate the next year, 1920. The only player to ever be killed on the field.

[Sarasdad]

Back in those days we had a lot of brave men and women.

[scottdeluca]

Wow!! great story I never heard it!!!!

[dewayneleek]

Dang never heard this story before, astounding

[GeneCardi]

Bad ass, today's players are crybabies

[anakatrien]

Oh my goodness. Those men played baseball for little pay, but for true love of the game then

[shaner]

By golly that's what I call dedication.

[shaydowsith]

As a Cleveland native I'm surprised I never heard this story before.

[RonDanish-ef]

Never heard that story before today. Unbelievable. Ron

[joeydepalmer]

Ray "The Lightning" Caldwell

[sallyware]

So happy Caldwell survived the lightening