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Education Days offer promotional muscle for minor league baseball teams

4 R 706 Ab Promotions sponsored by minor league baseball teams probably all sound pretty good in the marketing meetings that hatch them. On the field, though, things don't always work out as planned. For proof, look no further than Comstock Park, Mich. - just outside of Grand Rapids. It was there, at Fifth Third Ballpark, that the West Michigan Whitecaps held in April a timeworn but fairly straightforward cash drop that went awry right after the helicopter dumped its payload of $1,000 in bills. In the mad scramble that ensued, a pair of 7-year-old children suffered minor injuries, with one trampled boy's bruises landing him a brief hospital stay. "It's for fun and games," a team spokeswoman told the Associated Press after the incident. "This is why we have everybody sign a waiver."

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