Call us today at ! Can I Sue? Aug 16, Exceptions and Options for Victims Today, more fans than ever before are susceptible to injuries from foul balls at baseball games. Proving Negligence Personal injury lawsuits hinge on the concept of negligence, and this applies even when disclaimers are involved. In order to prove negligence, your attorney will need to show the court: The stadium had a duty of reasonable care to protect event patrons, such as installing safety nets to protect against foul balls.
The stadium violated this duty in some fashion, such as failing to fix known holes in the nets. This violation directly led to your injuries and damages, such as a foul ball traveling through the hole in the netting.
First Name: Please enter your Firstname. Please enter your Last name. The LA Times reported that Hample "caught Trout's homer on the fly after running about 20 feet, climbing over a row of seats and lunging to his left. Hample has kept other historic balls, including the last home run hit at Shea Stadium, Bonds' th blast and Derek Jeter's 3, hit. He doesn't plan on selling any of the thousands of baseballs he has caught.
When Derek Jeter knocked his 3,th career hit out of the park in , the ball landed in the hands of a year-old cellphone salesman Christian Lopez. Although Lopez passed up on an estimated quarter-million dollars, ESPN reported that he received a king's ransom for his act of kindness.
The most notable home run ball that has not been sold, given back or put in the Hall of Fame is Kirk Gibson's dramatic game-winning blast from Game 1 of the World Series. In what SB Nation called "the greatest single moment in L. It does not produce any thinning of the smoke that hovers over the classic ballgame. In the end, it only reheats the standard myth, in which a baseball is a little fragment of a world before a fall.
If a baseball were really that, though, fans would not care about the game in the way they actually do. This is hardball, after all: what keeps the fan watching is sheer anxiety over the volatility of the unscripted event itself. Minor though it may be, a game is itself an authentic historical event. No big explosions are necessary. But while it was suspended in the zone between Hamilton and Stone, between field and crowd, where all the energies of big time baseball gather, that ball was an indeterminate thing, carrying all the surprise of the actual event.
It only means going for the ball was not, in the first place, a question of exchange and all the calculations that that entails. The ball was there, up for grabs. Like Stone, Christian Lopez just went for it. Some teams said they don't track that data, others said it was a privacy issue.
The NBC News tally is based on lawsuits, news reports, social media postings and information from the contractors that provide first aid stations at MLB stadiums.
Only four agencies at four parks provided records of their emergency responses to baseball fan injuries, but those four alone provided reports of injuries from baseballs hit into the stands. NBC News found an additional reports of people being hit by balls since after combing through lawsuits, news reports and social media postings involving all 30 MLB teams, for a total of at least reported injuries.
Bob Gorman, author of "Death at the Ballpark," said the number of fan injuries is likely much higher. I think the teams know it," said Gorman, whose book is a comprehensive history of fatalities at ballparks. The physics of getting struck with a baseball can be brutal.
Baseballs are hard, weigh about five ounces and are nine inches around , roughly the size of a fist. And in the major leagues, they can fly off the bat of the best hitters at more than miles an hour.
At that speed, they can strike a fan about a second after leaving the bat. Garrett Jones, an eight-year veteran of major league baseball, knows first-hand the agony of seeing a foul ball hit a fan. The former first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a line drive foul along the first-base side into the stands at a May 25, , game.
The ball hit a little boy. It really hits you in the heart," Jones said. The boy, he was told, turned out not to be seriously hurt. But even with his skills as a top-level professional player, Jones questions whether, as a fan in the stands, he could catch a line drive headed his way.
The conditions of the ballpark and the technology of the game have changed. The players are stronger, the pitchers are throwing faster, and the balls are coming off the bat harder. Even MLB insiders acknowledge that for fans, paying attention to every moment of a game is almost impossible.
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