In 1997, during New York City’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, a female spectator was critically injured. It was a windy Thanksgiving that year and the enormous Cat in the Hat balloon flying down Central Park West could not be controlled. The balloon was taken by a gust of wind and knocked over a lamppost. The lamppost fell on Kathleen Caronna who was there with her husband and baby boy. Caronna was in a coma for nearly a month. Nine years later, while Caronna was in her Upper East side apartment, an airplane flew through her window, crashed into her apartment and instantly made her the most unlucky person in the history of mankind. Miraculously, Caronna got out of her apartment without injury. The minute mathematical probability of two such events happening to the same person makes this story strange enough. However, the pilot of the plane was a Major League baseball player. Even stranger. The New York Mets medical staff and third-base coach, Manny Acta, inhabit the building. Even stranger. A plane crashed into a building in New York City on October 11th. I find this pretty strange. The death of New York Yankees pitcher Corey Lidle is so strange, it makes Steve Irwin’s death look like natural causes. Though as anyone who follows baseball knows, Lidle’s death, while bizarre, is just one of many peculiar deaths to have occurred in America’s national pastime. Here are 9 more:

The Top 10 Strangest Baseball Deaths

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