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JAD

Feb 20, 2012
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Is this another facemask thread?

I know some people like to argue for/against wearing facemasks while fielding, but I think everyone should wear face guards on their batting helmet. Everyone has been wearing them since they were 6, so I have no idea why they are optional in college, but I bet the base runner in this picture was glad she had one on!
 
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Dec 2, 2013
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I was watching UTSA vs UT last week and a player(not wearing a face guard) got jammed while swinging and the ball hit in the cheekbone. She had to leave the game. I couldn't see the cut but I could see blood all over her hand. So yes I agree with JAD as it pertains to wearing a face guard on their batting helmets.
 
Feb 22, 2013
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I was reading an article on the internet yesterday regarding professional athlete career ending injuries. If I read the article correctly, there were at least two MLB athletes that ended their professional careers due to pitched baseballs striking them in the unprotected face. Kirby Puckett was one of the athletes that I read about and there was another player, which I hadn't heard about, named Tony Conigliaro. Both players left MLB because they couldn't see well enough to bat after the injuries to the face by a pitched baseball.

I think that the face guard on the batting helmet is good for girls softball and beyond.

When my dd started playing softball in college, she was given the choice by her coach to wear a batting helmet with a face guard or a batting helmet without a face guard. After her 1st fall ball game, she was introducing several of her teammates to me while eating fruits and other snacks available between games. She told me that her coach had given her a choice of face guard or no face guard on the batting helmet. She asked me what I thought and I told her that she had just played in a game where their lefty pitcher had just delivered a rise ball into the faceguard of an opposing batter. The gal got up and went to 1st base and continued to play. I told her that if that gal wasn't wearing a face guard, that she'd still be waiting for the medical people to remove her from the softball field.

I watched that lefty pitcher strike at least four more batters in the face guard that season with the up an in rise ball to right-handed batters Luckily, all the girls that she hit, were wearing a face guard on the batting helmet. Coincidentally, every one of her team mates that was in ear shot of our conversation on that fall ball day wore a face guard on their batting helmet.
 

JAD

Feb 20, 2012
8,231
38
Georgia
I was reading an article on the internet yesterday regarding professional athlete career ending injuries. If I read the article correctly, there were at least two MLB athletes that ended their professional careers due to pitched baseballs striking them in the unprotected face. Kirby Puckett was one of the athletes that I read about and there was another player, which I hadn't heard about, named Tony Conigliaro. Both players left MLB because they couldn't see well enough to bat after the injuries to the face by a pitched baseball.

I think that the face guard on the batting helmet is good for girls softball and beyond.

When my dd started playing softball in college, she was given the choice by her coach to wear a batting helmet with a face guard or a batting helmet without a face guard. After her 1st fall ball game, she was introducing several of her teammates to me while eating fruits and other snacks available between games. She told me that her coach had given her a choice of face guard or no face guard on the batting helmet. She asked me what I thought and I told her that she had just played in a game where their lefty pitcher had just delivered a rise ball into the faceguard of an opposing batter. The gal got up and went to 1st base and continued to play. I told her that if that gal wasn't wearing a face guard, that she'd still be waiting for the medical people to remove her from the softball field.

I watched that lefty pitcher strike at least four more batters in the face guard that season with the up an in rise ball to right-handed batters Luckily, all the girls that she hit, were wearing a face guard on the batting helmet. Coincidentally, every one of her team mates that was in ear shot of our conversation on that fall ball day wore a face guard on their batting helmet.

If my DD tells me she is not going to wear a faceguard on her batting helmet in college there is going to be consequences...no phone, no laptop, no car, no food. We have over $5K invested in her smile and don't get me started on the potential problems with brain, eyes, cheekbones, ect.
 
Nov 26, 2010
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If my DD tells me she is not going to wear a faceguard on her batting helmet in college there is going to be consequences...no phone, no laptop, no car, no food. We have over $5K invested in her smile and don't get me started on the potential problems with brain, eyes, cheekbones, ect.

Then you need to pay attention to how many batters wear or don't wear them on any college team that is being considered. Its not just coincidence that some entire teams go without.
 

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