Deadly Pencil Sharpening: Stanton Walker

In 1902, Stanton Walker, a 20-year-old man, was holding a knife that his friend had borrowed to sharpen his pencil during an amateur baseball game in Morristown, Ohio. As Walker was holding the knife, a foul ball struck him in the hand and drove the knife into his chest next to his heart. Despite claiming that he was "not much" hurt, the wound began to bleed heavily, and he died within minutes.