Baseball Fan Injured When Broken Bat Hits Him in Face Sues Mets & Players Claiming Player Should Not Have Used a Maple Bat
Court House News: “Major League ballplayers have switched in droves to maple from traditional ash, and the change has brought ‘a marked increase in incidences where bats broke,’ sending ‘shrapnel’ into the stands ‘at an alarming rate,’ a Mets fan says. James Falzon claims ‘the barrel of a shattered maple bat’ fractured his nose and tore his trachea as his son sat beside him at a Mets game.” Will the wavier stated on the ticket be a defense to the lawsuit? See the complaint,