In today’s game of Baseball, everyone wears helmets.  After all pitchers throw fastballs at speeds up to 100 miles per hour and if a player is hit on the head without a protective helmet, serious injury including death could occur.   It is amazing to think that when Baseball first began, players would play the game without helmets.

It was on this day, March 10, 1941, that the Brooklyn Dodgers started requiring all of its players to wear helmets.

During the prior season, Ford Frick, president of the Pittsburgh Press, designed a helmet which he thought that Major League Baseball should adopt.  After this a few players began to wear helmets and the rest is history.  A few months after the Dodgers required its players to wear the helmets, other teams followed suit including the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs.