Ball Player Killed

[jdmara]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

A parent on the LL Facebook page is already pushing for a required protective shirt or vest for all batters in LL. Fortunately, it's unlikely that this will happen -- it was a freak accident, the first such accident in LL since 1990 (and it was an 8-year-old then). This is tragic, but it happens rarely. It will happen again. We can't put our kids in bubblewrap.

That said, it's a tragedy for the parents, teammates, friends, league, and also the kid that pitched the baseball who likely will feel quite a bit of guilt about this for a long time to come, if not forever.

I rarely work youth baseball anymore. Not because I don't like working with the kids but more so that I can't deal with the parents half the time. Earlier in the year I got asked to do a youth tourney, it fit around my college schedule, so I did it. The first game the coach asked me, "do the players have to wear heart guards?" "Not that I'm aware of" "Ok, we have to for our league games and some of the other tournaments we do, I was just curious. They will probably wear them anyways". I had not heard that some leagues and tourney's "require" them.

-Josh