Bill Lee, still pitching at age 75, stopped breathing after collapsing in the bullpen on Friday night at Grayson Stadium, in Savannah, Georgia. Lee pitches occasionally for the Savannah Bananas.
Immediate intervention from paramedics and two shocks with a defibrillator resuscitated Lee.
The second defibrillator shock "seemed to do the trick, got the heart beating," said Bob Milie, the Town Administrator for the town of Thunderbolt, located about five miles outside of Savannah, who was at the game. "He wasn't breathing. It was very, very dire."
The Bananas play in the Coastal Plain League, a wood-bat collegiate summer league.