Baseball helmets for major leaguers, anymore, come three different ways. With an ear flap on the right side, for left-handed batters. With an ear flap on the left side, for righties.

Battey's teammate Tony Oliva later wears a similar contraption, at least in batting practice. • 1964 : Tony Gonzalez of the Phillies is beaned and soon begins wearing a helmet with a pre-molded ...

Henderson wore the wrong Orioles’ batting helmet to the plate during his first at-bat in Baltimore’s series opener against the New York Mets.

Six S100 helmets are being sent to each major league team for its players to try out for the rest of this year. Wright is one of those six -- if the helmet arrives in time for the Mets' game ...

Creighton J. Hale, Little League chief and developer of batting helmet, dies at 93 October 21, 2017 More than 7 years ago Creighton J. Hale testing the safety of catcher's equipment.

The logo on the Chicago Cubs' batting helmets are a felt patch, but don't have nearly the same 3-D impact of the Dodgers' new logo. Getty Images ...

NASHVILLE – A motorcycle helmet. A boxing robe. An Abe Lincoln-like top hat. The Capitals have awarded their MVP-of-the-night a variety of items over the years. What hasn’t changed is this: It ...