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   Barry Carter said, 6 months ago

   Of course, if you REALLY beaned him, he wouldn’t be able to get up, much less pound you… ah, Catch 22.
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   Linux0s said, 6 months ago

   Wonder how he feels about a croquet-ball?
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   legaleagle48 said, 6 months ago

   Fortunately, beanballs are illegal anyway.
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   KeepKeeper said, 6 months ago

   .without intent or forethought, bean balls are legal. That’s the way a stupid law works.
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   KeepKeeper said, 6 months ago

   Just say oops, sorry.
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   orinoco womble said, 6 months ago

   @Linux0s

   Or a cricket ball?
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   stcrowe said, 6 months ago

   Well, the batter seems to know how to throw Charlie Brown off his game.
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   Kate the Great said, 6 months ago

   Before Schroeder walked back to the plate — before he was even done talking — that’s when Charlie Brown should have fast-ball beaned the kid! (Rude, little punk! No one threatens my Chuck.)
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   K.C. Fahel said, 6 months ago

   I have always wondered…what IS a “beanball”? I don’t like baseball so I don’t know much beyond four bases and “home run”.
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    23035387 said, 6 months ago

    a beanball is where you hit the batter on purpose
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    Cooncat said, 6 months ago

    @K.C. Fahel

    A Beanball is when a pitcher intentionally throws at the batter … usually at his head. It is done at higher levels of baseball, and is used for various reasons. It could be to send a message to a hitter who crowds the plate. It also could be used in retaliation for the other team’s pitcher “accidentally” hitting a batter on the beanball pitcher’s team. Probably more than you wanted to know ..
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    RobinHood2013 said, 6 months ago

    @Cooncat

    And not only does the batter get a free base, but the pitcher is usually ejected. One famous exception (and I think I may be biased here) is when Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers beaned Robin Ventura of the Chicago White Sox, after which Ventura charged the mound and proceeded to “wail on [Ryan’s] fist with his face” (a famous line from the Bobby Allison-Cale Yarborough fight at the end of the 1979 Daytona 500), and Ventura, not Ryan, was the one ejected.
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    MickMaus said, 6 months ago

    @stcrowe

    Hey wait, Charlie Brown has a game? ;)
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    dheine1971 said, 6 months ago

    Underhand throw!
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    orinoco womble said, 6 months ago

    To be “beaned” with anything is to be struck in the head. The head was called the “bean” in 19th century slang.
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