While covering second base in a high school baseball game, a player on the rival team managed to spike me high on the inner aspect of my left thigh as he was trying to break up the double play. I completed the throw despite the fact that I had a 5” bleeding gash on my leg. Coach pulled me out of the game and sent me to the nurse’s office to have the wound attended. Since it was a home game, the school nurse made a big deal of the injury and