Believe it or not, at the dawn of baseball catchers played with no equipment whatsoever. Over time they gradually began wearing masks and mitts (1870s), chest protectors (1880s), and shin guards ...

in a lawsuit filed about the brain damage incurred in 2006 when he was hit by a line drive in the chest during a youth baseball game ... a chest protector shirt, available at most sporting ...

Chest protectors don't prevent sudden death when a child is hit in the chest with a ball while playing sports such as baseball or lacrosse, a new study shows. The injury, called commotio cordis ...

High school physics are a distant memory for me, but something appeared amiss Thursday when the baseball stuck like glue to the chest protector of St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina after ...