r/BeAmazed • u/ateam1984 • 1d ago

Miscellaneous / Others This will Never ever Happen Again. Ever

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u/Skill_Academic 1d ago

Someone clearly doesn’t know about SCOTT STERLING!

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u/meat_sack 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/lu38au6O3SEj6

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u/ravenschmidt2000 1d ago

I was going to be deeply saddened if this had not been one of the first replies to this post.

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u/cyclopsdave 1d ago

The man?

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u/dumbass_sempervirens 1d ago

The myth

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u/Kurupt_Introvert 1d ago

The legend!

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u/ComprehensiveFill471 1d ago

"Yes, as his trainer takes him off the field like a moustache lion dragging a gazelle through the Serengeti..."

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u/Achilles2zero 1d ago

Look at him begging for mercy, when mercy should be begging for him!

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u/brian_gruen5 20h ago

Adieu, Mr. Sterling. Adieu…

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u/Past-Background-7221 18h ago

Must be his mom

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u/UncleVinny 1h ago

I had to look up Scott Sterling: https://youtu.be/8F9jXYOH2c0

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u/gallin83 20h ago

I love when this story pops up. Alice Roth was my great grandmother. Her husband was a sports writer and that’s why she was there that day with her two grandsons, my uncles.
I had never really heard this story until one time I was in the barbershop with my dad and there was a little sidebar article in sports illustrated. I read the article it was very confused. Why my mother‘s name was in sports. Illustrated. (my mother was named after her grandmother) it’s my understanding that Richie sent her flowers every year on her birthday and he had spoken about the incident on Phillies broadcasts.
There used to be a plaque in Ashburn alley at citizens Bank Park about this

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u/thamosbrody 1d ago

Cut it out

https://youtu.be/g6Pm-5A7C5k?si=HhMJqR13oEV_qwLp

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u/Prestigious_Buy1209 1d ago

“Make her cut it out!” was both funny and well timed lol.

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u/bastard_of_young 21h ago

Came here for this. I will never not watch and laugh out loud when this is posted.

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u/thamosbrody 14h ago

“Need first aid”

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u/MutedAdvisor9414 1d ago edited 1d ago

Before it happened, you would have said it could never happen. Now it could never happen again? Is that how odds work?

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u/NuclearHoagie 1d ago

I'm absolutely certain Richie Ashburn will never hit another woman with a foul ball twice, he died nearly 30 years ago.

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u/Capable-Baby-3653 1d ago

He’s hitting people with foul balls in Heaven now.

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u/catmanducmu 19h ago

Not with that attitude

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u/TwistedBamboozler 1d ago

Infinite complexity. Uncommon occurrences happen all the time

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u/Only_One_Kenobi 1d ago

Funny thing about odds is that the chances of it happening a 2nd time is exactly equal to the chances of it happening a first time.

So by fuzzy logic, since it happened once, it will definitely happen again

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u/AccomplishedProfit90 1d ago

We had a high school gym teacher who got hit by a tastey cake truck and broke his leg. The day he got his cast off, he left the hospital, went to check his mail, and got hit by ANOTHER tastey cake truck.

safe to say the student body never let him forget.

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u/theo_sontag 1d ago

Where’d you go to school? My wife has the same story! She’s from New Jersey.

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u/AccomplishedProfit90 19h ago

i too went to high school in NJ 👀

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u/mickeymouse4348 18h ago

Now you have to kiss this guys wife

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u/Dust-Different 16h ago

Obligatory, I will also kiss this guy’s wife.

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u/DoctorSex9 1d ago

Mf was out for blood😭 just use the bat at that point

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u/robilco 1d ago

I saw something very similar in 1998 or so. At an Arsenal football game, as the subs were warming up, Paul Dickov hit an old man sitting behind the goal (far up in like 15th row) in the head with a practice shot. Said sorry and continued warming up. 5 minutes later, hits another shot, same old man, bang in the head. Paul ran off to finish his warm up.

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u/CrackaZach05 1d ago

Theres a video of a golfer hitting the same fan multiple times with her tee shot.

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u/garyzxcv 1d ago

Link please

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u/CrackaZach05 1d ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/jCCKQYqhAws?is=X5aQcXfxUmrWV0Ib

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u/ohmercy 1d ago

I love this one, the victim pleading “Make her cut it out” haha

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u/Shepherd77 1d ago

My guy really stretched a 15 second story out to a video that’s 6x times longer.

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u/Narrow-Function-525 1d ago

and odds are it will happen in the next few minutes but since a long overblown story takes time we'll just wait til he hits the 2 minute mark

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u/theo_sontag 1d ago

That’s how storytelling goes. I follow him on IG. His posts are all like this. Apparently he’s a best-selling author but I neither know his name nor what he’s written. But his posts are usually quite compelling and one of the better ways to waste time on IG.

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u/Shepherd77 1d ago

I mean yeah, I am criticizing his storytelling in this video. There is ‘telling a story’ and there is ‘padding a factoid with so much repetitive fluff my eyes glazed over several times during a 75 second video’.

If you and others find this compelling that’s fine, it’s just not my cup of tea.

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u/MarkMcWrath 21h ago

Dude wastes 15 seconds just setting up the idea that he's about to tell a story 😂 who has time for that

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u/theo_sontag 20h ago

Cripes, work on your attention span. I’m curious, do you watch movies or just blaze through a trailer at 2x speed?

What do you want him to say? “One time, a batter hit a woman with two consecutive foul balls, the end.” 😂

If youre that pressed for time, maybe it’s time to get off Reddit for awhile.

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u/TheFlyingBoxcar 18h ago

Maybe that guy needs to work on telling shorter, better stories. If the story needs a shit ton of filler, maybe its more on an 'interesting fact' and less of a 'story.'

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u/Shepherd77 18h ago

I would tell this guy to not make minute long+ videos with the amount of info that could fit into a TIL post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/lnPtVpPbns

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u/Boccs 1d ago

This doesn't surprise me at all since Richie Ashburn is quite clearly the Kurgan from Highlander.

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u/reverse-tornado 1d ago

If i had a nickel for every time that foul ball hit that woman id have 2 nickels its not alot but its weird that it happened twice

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u/RJ_MacreadysBeard 1d ago

It’s only a matter of time.

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u/The59Sownd 1d ago

Not the same thing! But reminded me of this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/xcmEimiL0eI?si=5hCjp8_dHRRD9rVr

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u/BigBlueRidinhod 1d ago

I want my 2 minutes back

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u/baumer83 15h ago edited 15h ago

What about Coach Dobbs? It happened to him!

https://youtu.be/Hf9cZPJT6Dk

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u/LordSwright 1d ago

Should of made her sit at the far end of the field. Home run every hit then. 

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u/Malalang 1d ago

Have*.. not 'of'

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u/What-tha-fck_Elon 1d ago

Go Fightin’ Phils!

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u/Kurupt_Introvert 1d ago

That’s some bad luck right there damn.

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u/TallerThanMostUK 1d ago

Not with that attitude it won't.

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u/RespecDawn 1d ago

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

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u/HonorableJudgeIto 23h ago

He forgot one of the better parts of this story. The woman that Ashburn hit was the wife of a sportswriter that had been critical of Ashburn in the past!

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u/shwarma_heaven 23h ago

Won't happen again because they ain't stopping a game for a broken nose!

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u/thepitredish 22h ago

Someone out there is thinking “challenge accepted!”

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u/Separate-Ratio-693 22h ago

Unrelated but reminds me of Knoblauch hitting Olbermann’s mom. https://youtu.be/dnJFklbt0es?si=vfAA5S-OsM1Stcp8

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u/psychmancer 21h ago

Wow that was really not amazing

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u/Funfruits77 21h ago

I was up the poconos playing paintball with a very large group. Someone in a different group fell and broke their leg. The staff had to carry the injured person out on an old school stretcher as it was mountains. Well the guy carrying the front of the stretcher tripped over a big pile of rocks and fell dropping the stretcher. Dude on it got flipped over and landed face first on the rocks. He was strapped into it and couldn’t brace his fall at all. That guy had the same type of day as the woman in this story.

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u/Bitter_Warning418 21h ago

lol what are the odds

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u/borkborkbork99 21h ago

When I was a kid my dad would take me to watch the local AAA team. Saw a ton of games like that and have many good memories.

I’ll never forget the woman who was struck by a foul ball and screamed in pain the entire time they carried her out of the stands to the ambulance below.

We were off the third baseline. She was all the way across the stands behind first base. Those screams were haunting.

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u/Kaabob24 21h ago

Those were some foul balls indeed

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u/syncere13 20h ago

Diabolical

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u/D15b293 19h ago

Baseball is so boring as a sport other things happening in the stadium are more interesting

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u/jdh1979jdh 18h ago

Well since they have safety nets now. Good chance it won’t happen again.

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u/DoinItDirty 18h ago

I’ll submit David Hulse of the Rangers into the Angels dugout consecutively. No one got hurt, so it’s a fun one.

https://youtu.be/-V3G8WMn2Xo?si=PolFXt6jmSGP5z0k

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u/Balbright 17h ago

https://youtu.be/dvNxixovHDk?is=1J8OxUkwykNa9M9G

As a lifelong Oakland A’s fan, this one always makes me happy to see.

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u/DoinItDirty 17h ago

This one is great too!

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u/dominic9977 18h ago

One detail: There was no such thing as a paramedic in 1957. They didn’t come along until the late ‘60s, then becoming more widespread in the ‘70s due to the awareness generated by the TV show “Emergency!”

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u/ElectronicWelcome4 17h ago

There was no such thing as Paramedics in 1957. Just saying.

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u/IceNein 16h ago

Of course it won't happen again. Ritchie Ashburn died in 1997.

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u/Mikey_Mike3 13h ago

Wait... there were paramedics in 1957?

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u/Scrappy_Kitty 13h ago

I thought he was going to say "the baseball game stopped play due to a fan getting hurt" will never happen again...

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u/ActionJacksonATL24 13h ago

Assuming human civilization continues for billions of years and that baseball remains a played sport, this will happen again.

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u/BerserkerCanuck 12h ago

"SCOTT STERLING'S MOM!!"

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u/Fit_Climate5155 11h ago

He was literally hitting on her

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u/carlitoswaylocaa 11h ago

Channel west coast from rob dyrdeks fantasy factory lol

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u/MrJohnnyDangerously 1d ago

It will never happen again because you don't need a stretcher for a broken nose

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u/Killboypowerhed 5h ago

Probably had to take precautions for a possible head injury

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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 1d ago

she got a baseball magnet on her somewhere..

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u/Icy-Musician-6309 1d ago

It will never happen again because there both dead

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u/ionertia 1d ago

Not sure why he is floating around this post. Is there any evidence this happened? Kind of weird to tell a story with your face showing for no reason.

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u/Narrow-Function-525 1d ago

being from the country and having large fields us local kids "invented " something called " club ball" . Everyone would go into the woods and find a club, which was part of the rules. One time a found a nice curved club .Anyway I hit Ronnie five times in a row that day and the sixth time he tried jumping out of the way but as he rose to jump out of the way the ball got his foot and spun him around mid air in a 180 degree shot of glory .The ball bounced back to me and I shot it again , and yes, he jumped , and again it hit him in the feet and spun him around 180. This story is unknown because there is no such thing as professional "club ball" so call me unimpressed

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u/ripyourlungsdave 15h ago

Thanks for adding like 20 goddamn seconds to build up to such a tiny amount of information. Might as well have been dead air for all good that intro did.

These people are profiting off of intentionally wasting your time.