Think about it...30 teams, 81 road games a season, jets flying to all these locations with the full team on board. Wouldn't you think that one day, an entire MLB team would be completely wiped out? In all the years of baseball, wouldn't you think there'd be a plane crash? Has that ever happened?
2007-07-11 08:31:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
I like jeremy's math, but you have to add some flights to the numbers he used. His numbers don't take into account the flights used to go back home from the road trip. Since most road trips are at least 2 series, lets say we add 14 flights home. That will get us to .77% chance of a crash or about one every 130 years or so. Since planes have only been used in commercial aviation for about 60 years, we may not see that crash in our lifetimes - but the odds say it will happen at some point.
2007-07-11 09:33:14 · answer #1 · answered by DoReidos 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it hasnt happened in MLB. The most notable one in american history was Marshall University, they just made a movie, a few years back. And it has happened in a few other sports, as well as a bus crash with a small college baseball team just this year, but they only lost a few players, not the whole team.
Pro sport leagues do have emergency plans for a team lost in a crash. I believe it has something to do with a contingency draft involving players from other rosts and minor league systems. I dont know when they would go about it, whether they would finish the season without the lost team, or draft the new one and go from there. Hopefully we will never have to find out.
2007-07-11 18:32:35 · answer #2 · answered by mossmayhem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, man, that would be terrible. I betcha the entire MLB season would be cut short if a whole team was wiped out. Remember the hysteria when Josh Hancock passed away in a car crash earlier this season? Or when Cory Lidle died in a plane crash last October? Imagine that times 30. That would be horrible. The Cardinals are my most hated team and I actually cried when Hancock died (I know he was driving drunk, and he was really stupid to do it, but it is still very sad). I saw him pitch at Minute Maid Park earlier this season. Felt really surreal. I can't imagine if it were a whole team.
It has never happened, and I pray to God it never does. I love the game of baseball too much to be able to deal with that.
2007-07-11 16:23:37 · answer #3 · answered by Mallory 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Follow my math here:
Each team makes about 27 flights per year (81 road games divided by 3-game series). Times 30 teams, that's 810 flights per year.
Stats on charter plane crashes are a bit hard to come by, but the worst-case number seems to be around 1 in 160,000 flights.
At that rate (which is probably a bit high, in my opinion), the chance of any team's plane crashing in the course of any season is roughly 0.51%. Or, put another way, you could expect a team's plane to crash roughly once every 200 years.
2007-07-11 15:54:43 · answer #4 · answered by JerH1 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the most famous plane crash in MLB history. Roberto Clemente right after he had hit number 3000 was delivering supplies to his home country after a tropical storm or earthquake or something. the plane crashed. Roberto died. he was the only person ever to be immediatly inducted into the hall of fame
2007-07-11 15:38:39 · answer #5 · answered by Patrick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's ever happened in MLB. It has happened to a few college teams though.
2007-07-11 15:36:17 · answer #6 · answered by bencas9900 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. i hope it nvr does. Robeterto Clemente Thurman Munson and Cory Lidel died in plane crashes though. That was enough
2007-07-11 15:48:25 · answer #7 · answered by trippplethreat333 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd rather see Barry Bond's private jet crash. You know that piece of sh*t thinks he's too good to travel with the rest of the team.
2007-07-11 16:38:12 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe the soccer team that crashed in the Andes used up that bad juju...
2007-07-11 15:38:35 · answer #9 · answered by Emily 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In other sports it has happened but not MLB. Let's hope we never see it.
2007-07-11 15:35:45 · answer #10 · answered by Frizzer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋