Mom Sues Maker Aluminum Bat

TEM: Suit accuses baseball bat Maker in case of death / Angela Brandt, Helena Independent Record
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textMore info: Brandon Patch, 18, was pitching in a hitter Helena Senators, who asked a Louisville Slugger aluminum cap when he entered the temple by the bullet, 25 adopted in July 2003. Patch died in hospital after nearly four hours. Debbie Patch lawyers argue that the case is not a strange accident. Baseball hit with aluminum poles, like the American Legion for use in this game, give only pitchers milliseconds to respond to take a defensive position. The average is about 400 milliseconds after the prosecutor Joe White. Patch had time to respond to about 376 milliseconds.

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Family Sues H & B with the dangers of aluminum poles

Louisville, KY (WAVE) - One interesting case is now before the court in question, if aluminum bats should be banned from baseball. A family of Montana has sued the maker of Louisville Slugger to the death of his son.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text18 Brandon Patch died after being hit in the head by a baseball that was hit with an aluminum bat. His parents say, the Louisville-based Hillerich & Bradsby knew the dangers.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text25 laid in July 2003, Brandon, a marble from the mound. After the ball was hit, Brandon was shot in the forehead by a line drive. E 'died five hours later by a blood clot in the brain.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textExpert clock the ball hit by an aluminum bat to 99.8 miles per hour. The process of Hillerich & Bradsby, makers of Louisville Slugger aluminum BAT, the company said in BAT aluminum, a ball hit with extreme force and warned the people that were dangerous. Rick Redman, H & B Vice President of Corporate Communications, said that s is not the case.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text"What happened on the baseball field in Montana in 2003 was a terrible accident. C 's what was a terrible accident, " said Redman.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textBut the patch 'lawyer argued before the jury that Brandon ' s death preventable, is not a freak accident. He said that faced with a ball at high speed, which held Brandon not enough time to get his glove after the force field to protect themselves.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textBut Louisville Slugger lawyer says Rob Sterup the ball out of the BAT aluminum faster than it would be a wooden club. He claimed that Brandon's death was an accident, is not the fault of the bat.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text "Certainly, this case is underway in Montana, we are in this case, we are confident, " said Redman.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textCoach Brandon testified that he noticed nothing unusual in the list of results. Testimony is expected for a couple of days. The jury may be the case next week.
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Buzz Sports Safina final fate of the WTA

Dinara Safina ended the best season of his career, with tears in his eyes Wednesday as a serious back injury ended his season. Safina took only 13 minutes in their first round robin match of the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar, before it is finished, while serving at 1-1 against Jelena Jankovic.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textHis resignation means that they have lost the No. 1 ranking at the end of the year Serena Williams, Venus defeated her sister 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) Wednesday. Also Wednesday, Caroline Wozniacki BT Victoria Azarenka 1-6, 6-4, 7-5.
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Unable to perform Translation:invalid textA jury decided Wednesday that Montana BAT manufacturer Hillerich & Bradsby sufficiently aware of the dangers of aluminum bats could present the award to notify family of Brandon Patch $ 850,000 to his death. The jury chose the product is not defective.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textPatch family had argued that aluminum baseball bats are dangerous because they give the ball to travel faster than a wooden club. Patch was hit in the head while pitching in a game of the American Legion in Helena in 2003.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textPhelps United States joins in Duel
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textMichael Phelps is the United States against a team of swimmers European player in Duel in the Pool, probably the last major international high technology to meet Teddy. USA Swimming has 36 members of the team includes 17 Olympians. The United States will be a team from Great Britain, Germany and Italy 18-19 Dezember against Manchester, England.
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Unable to perform Translation:invalid textTransmission undefeated Zenyatta, who entered the Cup Classic 5 million cattle and $ 2 million Ladies Classic United States, based on 5 years to the Sea Classic November 7 in run-up since their formation last few hundred meters Saturday at Hollywood Park. Total of 166 horses, including 37 in Europe have already been entered Wednesday for $ 25.5 million, 14-race Breeders' Cup World Championships at Santa Anita.
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Unable to perform Translation:invalid textJohn Fahey, president of the World Anti-Doping Agency wants to regulatory approval Tennis Andre Agassi in his autobiography, "open", he used crystal meth and escaped a state of suspension by the drink because of his positive test on a set cases presented. Fahey said the case demonstrates the importance of follow-up check the temperature of his body as positive in these cases.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textElsewhere
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text• Semi-professional football player Leon Woods, 23, Rochester, NY, was presented an arbitrator with a punch in the face with his helmet into account. Referee Pete McCabe needs surgery on his broken nose, jaw and other bones of the face.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text• The Council of State, the highest appellate authority of France has rejected the German Stefan Schumacher, runner of his two-year doping ban.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text• Tom Lehman withdrew from the Charles Schwab Cup Championship because of a family emergency, and 29 players in the final season on the Champions Tour.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text• Northern Iowa is the first choice to win the overall title Basketball Missouri Valley Conference men in 2009-10, according to a poll of coaches, sports executives and the media.
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Aluminum baseball bat Security Court in Montana

HELENA, Mont - In the fight against the Helena Senators 'fifth inning rally pitcher Brandon Patch checked the runner at first base. The 18-year-old Miles City Mavericks 'left-hander was placed in liquidation, seemed to express what is surely more of a strike.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textInstead, senators s 'hitter Piazza connected to slam the ball so hard it almost impossible to follow - until it bounced Patch ' head. The ball then fell behind the first base after a trip undertaken by some reports up to 50 meters in the air.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textPatch, pitching in what one of his last game for his team at the American Legion, on the hill together. He briefly succeeded his father and coach, speak and had some teammates in the eastern Montana town of Miles City, who rushed to his aid. Patch minutes later, seizures that had disrupted the amount noted in the gallery.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textIt was in a few hours, the patch of head injuries suffered during the match was, why 'd love a child is dead.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text "E 'was equally fast. Everything happened so fast, " Mavericks ' first baseman Kevin Roberts recalled more than six years later, in a courtroom, where the bat 's patch was cited in Findings by the manufacturer 's mother told the product of preparation, an unreasonably dangerous.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textHe went into the study, which should at least until early next week whether a person is a danger that comes with an aluminum baseball bat could have known, and that the manufacturer would be responsible for Patch 's death.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text "There is absolutely no evidence that they have always wondered ... a situation that is vulnerable in a vase can create " said Joe White, the patch, 'lawyer.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textMetal bats is popular in amateur sport in 1970. Recently, but have come to take control and criticism, such as violations of the ball moving quickly from a light bat fitted.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textWhat makes aluminum bats is different from that of their counterparts in the wood, the weight more evenly distributed in the metal, making it easier to swing faster and harder. You 're also generally shaped to have a wider sweet place, the region that produces bales most severely affected.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textIn 2002, the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has decided that there are no conclusive data to support a ban on metal bats in youth and baseball games in high school. The study showed that between 1991 and 2001 were 17 deaths nationally due to hit balls. Of these, eight were bats, metal, wood and two in seven of unknown origin.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textBut Patch 's death in 2003, shed new light on the issue, when his team refused to play the metal bat, or American Legion games against those who used it.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textSince 2007, teams of high school in North Dakota and New York have also played with wooden clubs. States, including Montana and Pennsylvania, the birthplace of Little League World Series, as well as state laws against metal bats from Patch 's death, although none has passed.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textLawyers for Hillerich & Bradsby, makers of Louisville Slugger used to hit BAT Patch 's fateful step, says that accidents are bound to happen in baseball, and ' nothing inherently improbable safe on aluminum baseball bat S.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text "The bat has been doing what is expected of you. C 'is not a bit' different, ", said lawyer Rob Sterup Judge Kathy Seeley published Wednesday in a vain attempt to preserve the case .
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textIt's time for a jury to decide whether the company is at fault and whether the injury Patch Family Award. Calling the family has not presented Patch is a certain amount, although lawyers have said that the case, isn 't silver.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textThe Patch family went to a national crusade to eliminate the use of aluminum bats, while their name is known in baseball circles.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textIn 2004, the family in a program on ESPN was the safety of metal bats, in which he spoke out Brandon 's death. The family and a spokesman for Louisville Slugger has refused to speak with the Associated Press, while the process is ongoing.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textMike May, spokesman for the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association 's Don ' t Take My Bat Away program, said Patch 's death is tragic, and he respects what the mother should try to patch result is exactly the same thing would happened if a wooden club was used when the ball hit the weak point.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text "In the case of Brandon Patch, was a coincidence that include" ll never fully able and I hope we can go 'll never be with her, "said May " C ' s nothing more than that 'd like to see pretend play Brandon Patch today. "

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Agassi admits of methamphetamine in the '97

Andre Agassi 's came Autobiography of a recording, used crystal meth in 1997, and a cast of drug test - a result that, after he lied saying ' blind 'to take the substance.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textThe following is an excerpt from the autobiography "Open " published Wednesday in The Times of London, the eight Grand Slam says he wrote a letter to the ATP Tour for testing positive, saying that he accidentally drank from a soda full of methamphetamine from his assistant "Slim. "
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textAgassi said the ATP was examining the case, he accepted his explanation and threw it out. Management responded with a statement that an independent commission to take the final decision on an anti-doping rule violation.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textThe International Tennis Federation said it was "surprised and disappointed" From Agassi 's revelations.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textMarried with Agassi, the tennis star Steffi Graf and has two sons in 2006, retired. Excerpts from his autobiography, in the November 9 will be released this week on the London newspaper and Sports Illustrated and People magazines.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textAgassi 's first major title came at Wimbledon in 1992. Had until the end of 1997, he moved to No 141 in the rankings, and tennis player ', the minor league.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textHe resumed his career in 1998, making the most of a leap year in the top 10 in ATP history. The following season he won the French Open to complete a career Grand Slam, has a second Open title the United States to be completed in 1999 1. N
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textGolf: The LPGA Tour was Michael Whan as new commissioner, a former executive golf course marketing and hockey equipment for the new Tour de l 'relationships with sponsors. Whan previously worked for Wilson and TaylorMade Golf Company and was most recently president of Mission-Itech Hockey. He replaces Carolyn Bivens, the players will be forced out in July, the loss of the LPGA Tour having authors.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textBaseball: A jury Montana $ 850,000 to the family of a pitcher who, after being the head by a ball hit by an aluminum bat is dead. The jury found that BAT manufacturer Hillerich & Bradsby sufficiently warned about the dangers. The family of Brandon Patch, 18, claimed that aluminum bats are dangerous because they give the ball to fly faster than do those of wood.

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Mount Grand Jury Prize $ 850,000 in aluminum bat action

HELENA, Mont - A jury found Wednesday that the manufacturer of Louisville Slugger baseball bats are able to provide enough information about the risks of the product to warn that the allocation of a family of $ 850,000 for the year 2003, death of her son a baseball game.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textBrandon Patch's family claimed that aluminum baseball bats are dangerous because they drive the baseball to travel with greater speed. They said that the time of their 18 years old son was not enough to react to the ball is hit before it hit him in the head while pitching in a baseball game of the Legion in Helena United States in 2003.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textLewis and Clark County District Court jury awarded a total of $ 850,000 in damages against Louisville, Kentucky-based Hillerich & Bradsby because of warnings on the product space.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textThe boy \ 's mother, Debbie Patch, was stunned by the verdict. The family is happy and says that the verdict read.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid text "We never expected, " he said. "We hope that we could see the truth for most people. "


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textPatch said that he hoped the decision becomes more and more people are aware of the hazards associated with aluminum poles and other youth leagues will continue to bat in the woods.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid text "We just want to make another 's life, " said Patch.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textLawyers for Hillerich & Bradsby declined comment. Argued that accidents are bound to happen in baseball, and 'nothing intrinsically safe aluminum baseball bat art


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textA spokesman for the legendary Bat-maker, said Wednesday the company is all right and not the decision \ to be "seems to be an indictment of the ball sport together. "


Unable to perform Translation:invalid text\ "We have a bat in accordance with, " said Rick Redman. "The fact that BAT approved by the organization to play baseball \ 'and for organizations. "


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textSporting Goods Manufacturers Association 's Don ' t Take Away My Bat program, a group of athletes of Commerce, said that while Patch 's tragic death is exactly the same thing could happen with a wooden club.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textCurt Drake, a member of the family 's lawyers told the jury arrived at by awarding a total of $ 792,000 to Brandon Patch for his loss of income and pain and suffering, an amount that goes to his succession. The family has received $ 58,000 for his pain and suffering and damage.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textJudge Kathy Seeley is still considering the punitive damages in this case.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textIn the decision Wednesday, the jury also decided that the product is not defective. Drake said the decision was not significant because the jury found a risk without adequate advance notice.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textThe lawyer said the family \ 's victory is unlikely to change the way aluminum bats are used, but it could help boost efforts to seek a passage for youth baseball bats wood.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textMetal bats is popular in amateur sport in 1970, but still uses baseball bats professional wood. Some amateur teams have decided to change in recent years, partly thanks to the patch \ 's death.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid text"We met again on the way baseball should be played to play professional baseball \" said Debbie Patch.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textBrandon Patch was pitching for the Miles City Mavericks when the ball bounced over his head will fall behind the first base after a trip up to 50 feet in the air.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textPatch had convulsions on the ground in front of a horrified audience, and died a few hours after his injury.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textHis family 's application was made one of many in recent years, with an aluminum bat from Hillerich & Bradsby.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textLast year, continued the family of a boy, the New Jersey following a brain injury from a line drive off Louisville Slugger aluminum bat, the company had been beaten and others have said they would have known it was dangerous. Steven Domalewski was 12 when he hit the ball in 2006. His family 's suit is pending before the Superior Court of New Jersey


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textIn 2002, parents of the young pitcher Jeremy Brett of Enid, Oklahoma, won a jury verdict against Hillerich & Bradsby, and received compensation. The couple filed an appeal after Brett was shot in the head with a ball made of an aluminum bat made by the company, suffering from serious head injuries.

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A decision is Batty

Our society too different litigation notch in the belt of Montana last week after a jury, the parents of a boy of 18 years, $ 850,000 for his son, Brandon Patch, has become an American Legion game in 2003, killed when a ball Baseball - Louisville Slugger hit with an aluminum baseball bat - patch proposed in the head. Patch was on the hill, when it reacts error 't in time for a return to the tragic accident.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textFamilies Counsel established producer bat patch, Hillerich & Bradsby just was not warning about the dangers of using aluminum poles, which means that the jury was not found, the bat be defective. The special verdict states that the lack of warning was the cause of the accident.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textAs a mother of two children, my heart is with the player 's parents. It really does. But assuming the risks and dangers are obvious for the game of baseball for everyone. If you are hit by a baseball, going to harm 's get. For a ball to throw an aluminum bat, and yes, it 's likely to be hardest hit of damage.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textPitchers as patches are also more vulnerable to injury because they are in direct line of fire. The family of l 'lawyers said experts have signed the ball Hit Club that 99.8 mph.


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textThe Consumer Product Safety Commission, said that 1991-2001 was 17 deaths in the United States, hit by bullets. This affects all species of bats. So, where were the parents 'anxiety about his son reached by the ball?


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textPut a notice in a bat, went to aluminum or wood, isn 't BAT on the ball to come right again, slower, and it certainly isn ' t the pitcher with his response time. Help


Unable to perform Translation:invalid textIf someone in court, if the League would be authorized, the aluminum bats in ultra-killer in the first place. Of being surprised by the jury, the guilt of the bat, don 't, where is the angle of attack to continue the following season, (the use of aluminum bats, which continue to keep raising interest rates for the transition from summer league baseball market traditional metal wood). Then wait 'likely to see action against the pitchers, whose behavior does not do much Johnny learned and lead to injury.

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