Since major league baseball began in 1876, there have been only two game-related deaths in the more than 200,000 games played. The first was in 1909, when Philadelphia catcher Doc Powers crashed into a wall chasing a foul pop-up, suffering internal injuries. He died two weeks later. The last occurred in 1920, when on this date at the New York Polo Grounds, popular Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was hit on the head by a pitch from the Yankees’ Carl Mays. Chapman died the next morning from the skull fracture. Roughly midway between those deaths, there were some 23,000 work related fatalities in a single studied year in the U.S. Today, with a much larger workforce, that figure is around 3,600. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at <www.census.gov>.
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Phil is exactly right about there being only two game-related deaths in major league baseball history. One week ago, I thought my old computer had died and I was thinking that I needed to buy a new one. Instead, I called Phil at Data Forge and told him my problem. He suggested that I bring it in and let him look at it. In just a couple of days, he and his staff had it running again at a very reasonable price.
So if you think that your computer may have suffered a “game-related death”, give Phil at Data Forge a call before you have a funeral.
By the way, this is not a paid commercial. Just a word of thanks to Phil.
Phil always keeps me up and running
Phil and his staff are terrific–highly agree with royal rooter and elmwood.
What has this turned into a praise DataForge blog site?
DataForge has saved me big money twice. They took a little of my money to fix my ailing computer allowing me to kept most of my money in the bank instead handing it over for a new computer.
And DataForge does all of this without relying on government subsidized rental income to cover the slow times.
So let’s sing some praise for a truly home town business.
Thank you all. We’ve been fortunate to have good customers and experiences in Henderson and looking forward to more and doing more! We’ve also been quite busy the last few months, hope it’s a sign the economy is turning around.