Ok BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF TWO THOUSAND SOMETHING OR OTHER
So I played baseball for five years, from the time I was in kindergarten through the end of fourth grade. For the first four of those years, I was the team's main catcher. Sure I got hit with some fastballs, but one time I got hit by something that wasn't the ball.
I was doing my thing, crouched behind the plate in the catcher's position, and the ball came in, and the batter swung. But then he did something he wasn't supposed to, and threw the bat. This wouldn't've been much of a problem, if he hadn't thrown it at the end of his swing.
He made contact alright, but not just with the ball.
His flying bat came back around and hit me square in the elbow.
Little 9 y/o me thought I'd just broken my arm. The game was put on hold for a few minutes while they got a different catcher out there. I turned out to be fine and returned to cathing the next inning
I think we won that game, but it was more than five years ago so I don't really remember
That happened to be my last year playing catcher, I was second base my last year