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We had a case here a little over 20 years ago. Player came in hard to the catcher and was warned not to do it again. Later in the game play at the play and the same guy thinks he's in the majors and crashes into the catcher. Catcher is still confined to a wheel chair.
Catcher's lawyer used the shotgun approach to litigation sue everyone, park, park board, both umps (for not ejecting him the first time), UIC (for improperly training the umpires on when to eject), park rep at the site, the jackass who's life depended on the game and maybe more, I don't know. I know that the blues were cleared as well as the UIC but I don't know if anyone did pay off. Needless to say we're still touchy about torso to torso contact around here.
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