Creighton J. Hale

Hale (1924- ) born at Hardy, Nuckolls County. Administrator, inventor, researcher and lecturer in the field of sports medicine, president and CEO of Little League Baseball, pioneered the development of youth sports safety equipment such as the double ear-flap batter’s helmet, catcher’s helmet, chest protector with throat guard, rubber-spiked baseball shoe and the aluminum baseball bat; chairman of Technical Advisors of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Science Committee on Military Helmets, and was responsible for adoption of the new helmet by the U.S. Army in 1991. Consult Hamilton, NY Colgate Scene, July 1990, p. 6 and Collegiate Baseball, Vol 34 (February 8, 1991) 1, 5 and Omaha World Herald, February 27, 1991, p. 15 and American Men & Women of Science, Vol 3 (2003) 429 and Crete /NE/ News, May 5, 2004, p. C-5.

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