Injuries happen. It’s a part of life, it’s a part of baseball. There are injuries that end careers, and injuries that prompt heroic comebacks. Some injuries are flukes, some players just have that injury bug that they can’t seem to shake through out their usually short careers. No injury, well no injury in baseball that is, was perhaps more gruesome and more catastrophic than the one that occurred on this date in 1967.
Tony Conigliaro looked to have a bright, bright future ahead of him making a living as a Major League Baseball player when he signed at just 17 years-old in 1962.