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But once you take controll of the placement of the discarded bat, you might have assumed some type of duty to place it in a safe location. If you "kick it" into the path of the ondeck batter who is moving to coach the scoring runner, and she trips on the bat you placed in her path and she breaks her ankle, then-----
If I'm representing the umpire/defendant, I beleive I would rather be able to argue that the umpire had no controll of the placement of the bat, and that players assume the risk of participation.
JMO
Roger Greene
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