Evolution of Baseball Helmet 1905 - 2021 | History Of Batting Helmet | Baseball Documentary

A batting helmet is the protective headgear worn by batters in a game of baseball or softball. In this quick video, we will look at the full Evolution of Batting Helmet from the year 1905 to 2021, so ensure to watch to the end of this video. Also, kindly like this video and subscribe to this channel if you are new here to help this channel grow.

The History and Evolution of Baseball Helmet all started in 1905.

1905 - Mogridge created the first crude protective head gear.

1908 - Roger Bresnahan leather batting helmet was Introduced.

In August 17th, 1920, Ray Chapman was hit in the head and killed by the ball pitched by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays.

1937, we had he first teams to test helmets.

1941, the National League adopted the use of a helmet.

1953, a new type of plastic protective cap was introduced.

1960, we had the first player to wear the new Little League helmet in a Major League.

1970 season - Robert Crow introduced the C-Flap.

1979, non-C-flap batting helmet came into place.

2005, new sets of Batting Helmets were made.

July 11th, 2006 - Rawlings introduced the CoolFlo helmet with vents.

2007, there was a debate as to whether base coaches should wear helmets.

In 2008, After the 2007 season, coaches started to wear helmets.

In 2013, we had the new Rawlings S100 Pro Comp.

2018, Major League Baseball players began wearing the C-flap.


2021, we have different variations of modern batting helmets.


👉 Watch more videos on Evolution -    • Evolution in Sports  

👉 Evolution of Basketball Shoes -    • Evolution of Basketball Shoes 1917 - 2021 ...  

📺 SUBSCRIBE -    / @explainlikeimfive1  

▶️ Best Tool I use for this channel - https://www.tubebuddy.com/Oralcomple


If you found value in this video, Kindly like this video and share it with your friends. If you are new here, subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications so that you will receive our videos immediately we upload.