Klapisch: Thrown a curve, kindness is my buoy

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Can't Stop The Bleeding found this 8/25/2008 on www.baseballthinkfactory.org [flag]
“it’s worse than Tony C.” I would have packed up my duffel bag of life right then and there. Welcome back, Klap! As it turned out, the ER doctors were wrong. Ten days after my injury, two specialists spent 11 hours reattaching my retina and fusing the fractures. Dr. Sean Lalin, the eye surgeon, told me I have an 80 percent chance of regaining good vision in the right eye by New Year’s. ... [link]

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The Day Bob Klapisch Took A Missle To The Head
Published 8/25/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... the Bronx, it wasn’t because the latter had any difficulty seeing it for himself.  But since last July’s terrifying eye injury suffered in an Over 40 league contest, amateur pitcher/professional baseball scribe Klapisch has been left to ponder how “control of the ball - and with it, the at-bat, the game, sometimes even your life - ends the moment it leaves a pitcher’s fingertips.” From Sunday’s Bergen Record (link swiped from Repoz and Baseball Think Factory) : I learned this hard lesson July 10 at Smith Field in ...

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Published 8/25/2008 by kranepool at Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog
... Great story by Bob Klapish in yesterday’s Bergen Record (tip of the Mets cap to Repoz and the Baseball Think Factory) on his journey back from his devastating injury while pitching in a semi pro game. Scary stuff. Get well soon Klapper. ...

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