Baseball Fights

While most of the baseball fans are fascinated with the baseball game and the baseball players, there are surprisingly other baseball fans that just love to see baseball fights on a baseball field. Surprising, isn’t it? But true.

Baseball fights will always play an integral part of the National Baseball League and the Major League Baseball. Baseball fights apparently bring excitement and fun, according to some baseball fans. This is probably why baseball is considered a game for the tough ones. However, there are some that believe that those baseball fights are done just to gather bigger crowd on the field, but then, nothing can possibly be further from its truth.

Perhaps one of the most controversial fights is the baseball fight between Ben Chapman of the New York Yankees, and Charley Myer of the Washington Senators. During a baseball game, when Ben Chapman, a left fielder of the New York Yankees, slid into the second base, he unexpectedly cut the foot with his spike the Washington Senator’s second baseman Charley Myer. Myer fell, and when he picked himself up, and then kicked the leg of Chapman, even before the latter got up. Because of this, one of the latest baseball fighting incident was recorded. Baseball players from both the teams immediately rushed out towards the baseball field. The manager of the Washington Senators, Joe Cronin, has caught Chapman after he took some punches on Myer.

The two umpires of the game, Harry Geisel and George Moriarty, were able to restrain the other baseball players even before the fight was considered general. Both the umpires ordered Chapman and Myer off the field. But the only way to reach to the baseball players’ locker rooms from the baseball field is Washington is only through a small passageway that starts right beside the players’ benches of the Washington Senators baseball players. When Chapman reached the said passageway, Earl Whitehill, a Washington pitcher, called Chapman a bad name. This further angered and provoked Chapman. He suddenly threw a punch on Whitehill. Umpire Moriarty pulled the two fighters apart but he failed on doing so. By this time, players from both teams have rushed on the scene, not to stop the said fight, but enlarge it all the more. Uniformed policemen, private detectives, and more the three hundred spectators have rushed down on the baseball field. The players not only bashed with each other, but to the spectators as well. Good thing, the police were able to manage the scene, and after twenty minutes, the baseball game resumed. After five innings, the New York Yankees has won the game, sixteen to zero.

Baseball fights are very common, especially during the days when baseball players were mostly uneducated yokels. But these days, though there are still some baseball fights, they are not as many as compared to the fights before. Although baseball fans enjoy those imbroglios, plus the fact that it can greatly increase a crowd, some club owners believe that in the long run, these baseball fights can somehow harm a game.

Baseball players who are involved with baseball fights are often sanctioned. Some are made to pay for fines, while others are suspended for a number of games, depending on the intensity and the damage of the fight. With this new move, organizers and baseball officials are hoping that a baseball fight will no longer occur on a baseball game, considering the fact that a portion of the spectators are composed of young children.

Though there are still baseball fights these days, most of these are just some petty ones. Organizers are now making it a point that a baseball game should remain as it is—a game. That way, spectators and baseball fans will still love to watch one of the world’s most popular outdoor games, and that is baseball.