A concept drawing of a batting helmet in 1920. Ray Chapman had been struck in the head and killed by a pitch from Carl Mays on August 16, 1920. Following that incident, there were calls for baseball players to wear protective headgear.
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042354/1920-08-28/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1920&amp;index=13&amp;rows=20&amp;words=Batters+Headgears&amp;searchType=basic&amp;sequence=0&amp;state=&amp;date2=1922&amp;proxtext=batters+headgear&amp;y=0&amp;x=0&amp;dateFilterType=yearRange&amp;page=1"><i>Evening Journal</i></a> p. 8