Sunday, March 22, 2015

Probably the only wheelchair used at Crosley Field

April 24, 1957.

Ejections: Jackie Collum by Stan Landes [Balls and strikes]; Dick
Drott by Stan Landes [Bringing wheelchair to HP]

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1957/B04240CIN1957.htm

Wikipedia explains: "On April 27, 1957, Drott was ejected from a game for using a wheelchair to wheel Moe Drabowsky to first base after Drabowsky claimed he was hit on the foot by a pitch."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Drott

Attendance that day: 7,212.

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