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BASEBALL In baseball, a beanball is a pitch, similar to a Brushback Pitch but actually intended to Hit The Batter it is thrown at, often in the head. It is rarely used as a strategic weapon, and mostly used to vent anger and frustration; however, batters facing known headhunters or given a reason to fear a beanball may alter their approach to hitting in the interests of self protection, perhaps giving some strategic advantage to the pitcher. Some pitchers have been known to throw beanballs in response to giving up Home Run s. Teams with rivalries often find several beanballs exchanged a season. Beanballs can sometimes lead to fights, Charging The Mound , and Bench-clearing Brawls . Because of the hazards of the pitch and the possibility of fights, Umpire s will often warn teams, after beanballs or fights have occurred, that any pitcher to throw at a batter will be ejected from the game. Throwing at batters can sometimes lead to suspension for a number of games as well. The amount of hazardous beanballs thrown during and previous to the 1950s caused Major League Baseball to require that all batters wear Batting Helmet s, starting in 1956. A pitcher who is known for a habit of purposefully throwing at opposing batter's heads is called a ''headhunter''. Some purported headhunters (whose reputations as such are not always correlated with fact, as shown by statistics) include Bob Gibson , Sal Maglie , Hugh Casey , Nolan Ryan , Roger Clemens , Randy Johnson , and Pedro Martinez . EXTERNAL LINKS
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