Baseball's most improbable spectator injury happened in 1957

On August 17, 1957, Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Richie Ashburn achieved something that defies probability: he struck the same spectator with consecutive foul balls during a single at-bat against the New York Giants.

Alice Roth was sitting near the third-base dugout with her husband Earl, a sports editor for the Philadelphia Bulletin, and their grandsons when the first foul ball smashed into her face and broke her nose, according to Forbes. — Read the rest

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