Posted on 10/31/2009 10:47:17 PM PDT by steve-b
A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.
The family of Brandon Patch argued that aluminum baseball bats are dangerous because they cause the baseball to travel at a greater speed. They contended that their 18-year-old son did not have enough time to react to the ball being struck before it hit him in the head while he was pitching in an American Legion baseball game in Helena in 2003.
The Lewis and Clark County District Court jury awarded a total of $850,000 in damages against Louisville, Ky.,-based Hillerich & Bradsby for failure to place warnings on the product....
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Okay, we’ve gone over the cliff, place your pillow behind your head and kiss your...... goodbye.
You might want to ask Steve Yeager about how safe wood bats are.
John Grisham has an interesting take on this controversy in his book “The Appeal”
I think the solution is composite bats carefully tested to match the performance of baseline wood bats. I agree aluminum bats are a bad idea.
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