Urban Shocker was a major-league baseball pitcher, who played for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns from 1916 until 1928. Shocker, who was one of the last legal “spitball” pitchers, had a heart condition (possibly a diseased heart valve), which caused him to pass out on the field while pitching batting practice before a game in 1927. Shocker died in 1928, at age 37, from heart failure and pneumonia.