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Harold Patrick "Pete" Reiser (March 17 1919 - October 25 1981), the original "Pistol Pete," was an American center and left fielder in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and later the Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Indians, whose splendid career would have lasted longer if not for his all-out, devil-may-care style of play, which caused him to receive several serious injuries. He fractured his skull running into the outfield wall on one occasion (but still made the throw back to the infield), was temporarily paralyzed on another and was taken off the field on a stretcher many more times. As a rookie in 1941, he won the National League batting title while the Dodgers took home the pennant. The following year, he was hitting .380 until he ran into the concrete outfield wall while running at full speed. That incident robbed him of any more effective play that year, and caused Brooklyn's painful drop in the NL standings.

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