Meanwhile in cricket, former England wicketkeeper Bruce French was once hit on the head during practice by a ball thrown by a spectator. As he was going to hospital, he was hit by a car in the car park. And after having been examined, he sat up and hit his head again on the overhead light.
…His hobby outside of cricket was mountaineering. :eek:
I seem to remember Roger Clemens hurting his back while “installing carpet in his home.”
I’m surprised no one beat me to this one, but I suppose you’d have to be a bitter Dodger fan to remember Joe Beimel’s escapades before the playoffs last year.
Well if we’re doing cricket too: fast bowler Terry Alderman missed more than a year of international cricket and had to reinvent himself as a medium-fast seam and swing bowler when he badly damaged his right shoulder while rugby tackling a male streaker during the Perth Test against England in 1981/82.
Derek Pringle once missed a Test after hurting himself while writing a letter on the eve of the match.
Don Topley damaged a hand on a spring-loaded letterbox while delivering a letter to a friend.
Plenty more here.
Wasn’t there an English goalie who injured his foot on his coffee table a couple years back?
Somewhere around 2001 IIRC, one Padres pitcher injured himself falling out of a tree while hunting deer, and another one stabbed himself in the abdomen trying to open a CD case.
Yeah, and that Niq thing is weird.
As for Kevin Brown, it’s not too surprising that he’d injure himself in a dumb way. This is a guy who says he moved from the Padres to the Dodgers to be closer to his family…
… in Georgia.
(It was about the money. We all knew it. What a dick. I can’t believe he thought people would fall for that.)