 "In the Brooklyn half of the first inning in the first game of a double header at the Philadelphia National League Park a line drive from Tom Griffith's bat struck pitcher Wilbur Hubbell the Philadelphia pitcher, who did not have time to get out of the ball's way.The sphere hit him on the left side of the head and he dropped to the ground..."  He was out of the hospital on June 3, 1922, almost completely recovered from the injury.Newspaper reports at the time said he would wear "a specially constructed steel plate to guard the area over his right ear" against further injuries.