Dizzy Dean hit in the head for second time
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July 11, 1936 Jerome (Dizzy) Dean, whose potent right wing has rocketed the Cardinals into the National League lead, suffered a brain concussion in the sixth inning of the Giant-Card game today, which St Louis won, 9-3. A line drive from the bat of Burgess Whitehead been struck by a wagon tongue. Dean was rushed to St. John’s Hospital in a condition unconscious condition, where an x-ray showed there was no fracture.
With the Cards leading, 2 to 0, and Dean trying for his fifteenth victory of the season, Whitehead came to the plate with Davis on first after a single. Whitehead, a former Card, smashed one toward the box. Dizzy, off balance, attempted to catch the hit, but the ball smashed flush against his forehead and caromed into left field, scoring Davis. Manager Frankie Frisch danced madly on the sidelines as an umpire had him wait until play had been completed.
Davis crossed the plate and, turning, ran with other players from both teams to the side of the stricken player. Paul Dean, Dizzy’s brother, and an ace Card pitcher, was one of the first to reach his side. After a quick examination, Dr. Robert Ilyland, club physician, ordered Dean removed and sent to the hospital. One fan fainted in the pandemonium which reigned on the field and in the stands. Coming out of the coma at the hospital, where it was found the injury was not serious, Dean was his old wise-cracking self. “Boy, I have been hit before, but I never saw stars m such clusters, he flipped at the worried attendants. Today’s accident was the second time Dizzy has been kayoed on the playing field during his career with the Cardinals. In the 1934 World Series against Detroit.
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