A pitcher was soaking his arm in some ice water. There were tears in his eyes. It wasn't the pain from the physical injury. It was the thought that a baseball career might be over. At that moment I was glad to be a doctor.
Doctors can help.
Such is the rashness of youth. The 1952 Boston Braves finished the year with a pathetic record of 63-89. They started 1953 in Milwaukee County with Warren, Spahn, Lou Burdette, Andy Pafko, Joe Adcock and Eddie Mathews who would hit 47 homers that year. Milwaukee set a National League attendance record of 1.8 million. Four years later that nucleus would put Milwaukee at the top of the world as the Milwaukee Braves won the 1957 World Series.