Alan Fish

We think of the National Pastime as exciting and fun, not dangerous. Yet, there is a surprisingly long list of baseball-related deaths.

Foul balls, however, only have taken the life of one in 150 years: a 14-year-old boy named Alan Fish off the swing of Los Angeles Dodger Manny Mota on May 16, 1970. The ball flew so fast, no one saw it coming and the boy initially appeared fine but later began acting incoherently so they took him to the hospital; he died 4 days later. It was pointed out that Mota's teenage nephew would also die playing baseball 14 years later.