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This is sports. It may be a murky area which does require additional legislation. You can't just make a statement that battery is already illegal because:
A hockey body check, footbal tackle or block, etc. is NOT an illegal act in the appropriate sport but WOULD be if someone did it to a person walking down the street. In fact, penalties for on the field, against the rules, and sometimes injury causing acts, are routinely handled on the field, not in a court. No one gets arrested for using a knee-wrecking chop block or for hitting a batter with a pitch.
In baseball in fact, no one gets arrested for malicious contact - just ejected from the game.
It isn't necessarily that clear.
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