Author of Death At the Ballpark Shares Views On Fan Safety

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The co-author of Death at the Ballpark shares his views on fan-safety issues.

One 1008 Ab A 6-year-old girl suffered an open skull fracture in June when she was hit in the head by a foul ball at a La Crosse (Wis.) Loggers baseball game. A 7-year-old boy suffered a fractured skull and swelling of the brain in July after a foul ball reached his seat behind the third-base dugout at Chicago's Wrigley Field. In August, a foul ball hit during a Greensboro (N.C.) Grasshoppers game cost one adult fan his left eye. All three individuals survived their traumatic episodes. More surprising, perhaps, is that such incidents don't happen more often. Or do they? Paul Steinbach contacted Winthrop University professor Robert Gorman, co-author (with David Weeks) of Death at the Ballpark, an analysis based on newspaper accounts of baseball-related fatalities (to be published this month by McFarland & Company Inc.), for his views on the issue.

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