I don’t know about you guys, but when I was playing dodgeball in my younger years at elementary school you could only get someone out by hitting them below the waist and if you hit someone in the head, you got ejected. This caused problems because it’s much more satisfying to hit someone in the face than in the leg, and so naturally, my id would get the best of me and my team would spend the remainder of the game one man down.

On that note, I present 15 people getting hit in the face with balls.

**UPDATE** There are now 16 pictures in this gallery… and the crowd goes wild.

**UPDATE** **UPDATE** There are now 18 pictures in this gallery… and Anthony Weiner flashes his penis.

Who ever said baseball isn’t a contact sport?

Baseball is unlike almost every other professional sport in that one player can use the ball as a weapon to intentionally injure another player. You don’t see Kobe throwing basketballs in the face of Labron James and you won’t see Eli Manning launching footballs into the masks of Patriot linemen – it doesn’t have the same effect.

Baseball on the other hand is played by an ethical code unique to the game – a code that says ‘throw at my guy, I throw at your guy’. Usually this means that if a player on one team is hit by a pitch, they will throw at a batter on the other team – usually that team’s best hitter – in order to even the playing field and to make a statement.

Of course some batters are hit unintentionally, and some are dealt chin-music with the intent to seriously injure. But intent aside, these are the 10 Great Baseball Beanings Caught At Just The Right Moment (well, a few aren’t really beanings but I couldn’t justify omitting them).

Saaaaaawing and a… cockshot.