Angels hitting coach Don Baylor suffered fractured right femur catching ceremonial first pitch

[soxhop411]

RT @MikeDiGiovanna: #Angels hitting coach Don Baylor suffered fractured right femur. Will undergo surgery Tuesday.
 
 
Bill Shaikin ‏@BillShaikin  10m
It usually takes a car crash or something similar to break a femur, the strongest bone in body, per AAOS. Get well soon, Don Baylor.

 

[Harry Hooper]

As Kendrys Morales will tell you, that home plate area in Anaheim is a hazardous work area.
 
 
 
Don Baylor is #4 on the all-time career HBP list, most of which he treated with utter disdain and nary a wince. He broke his femur, the largest bone in the body, on a ceremonial first pitch? Truth is stranger than fiction.

 

[Bozo Texino]

MLB.com has video.
 
A freak accident, if ever there was one.  Yikes.

 

[Sampo Gida]

Baylor had multiple myeloma a few years back, a type of bone cancer and this may be why. Not sure if the cancer is back or his femur was weakened from the earlier bout with the cancer.
 
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130621&content_id=51334016&c_id=ari

 

[DaveRoberts'Shoes]

Almost definitely fractured through a weak part of the bone, unfortunately likely due to his myeloma.  Multiple myeloma is not really one of those cancers that usually ever fully goes away, unfortunately.

 

[Lowrielicious]

Jesus christ...the part of him standing back up and trying to put pressure on it, only for it to buckle again, is really brutal to watch. Ugh.

yep, thats the part that does it for me.
Reminds me way too much of trying to "play through" a broken ankle. Wasn't obviously broken (i.e. other than the pain and all that), but I am sure glad I didn't get a ball hit to me for that one hitter I was still in the field.