It’s not what you expect when you go to a ballgame. A woman enjoying the Cardinals-Brewers game in St. Louis on Tuesday night felt a sudden sharp pain in her elbow. She had been shot.

The police said she had been hit by a stray bullet, possibly from someone firing into the air a mile away. Luckily, she was not seriously hurt.

Surprisingly, this was not the most serious stray-bullet episode at a major league baseball game. In 1950, a fan at a game at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan was shot and killed.