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TIL in 2007, St. Louis Cardinals baseball player Juan Encarnación was in the on-deck circle and was hit in the face by a foul ball from his teammate. He sustained multiple fractures to his left eye socket and an injury to the eye itself. He never played Major League Baseball again.

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