Anytime a fan attends a baseball game you take a risk of being hit with a foul ball. Any fan of baseball wants to be closer to the field in order to get a better chance of catching a foul ball.
The current baseball is white with red laces. Why don’t they change the color to orange. This way you can see the ball a lot better. A white ball get lost in the lights. An orange ball would be a lot easier to see visually. The NCAA softball use a florescent yellow ball.
I remember Charlie Finley proposed using an orange baseball. He stated that an orange baseball would be a lot easier to see, especially at night. The white ball get lost in the lights.
When I’m at O.com stadium for a baseball game. I ‘m there to watch the game not texting on my phone.
Tennis went to yellow balls many years ago because the white ones were hard to see. Some golfers play yellow or orange balls so they can be seen better. I am not sure orange baseballs will keep fans from being hit by screaming line drives into the stands, especially if the fan isn’t paying attention to the action as many of them do.
I have great seats 7 rows behind the vistor’s on deck circle at U.S Cellular Field. There’s no screen between me and the field and I don’t want one. I’ve caught some balls and some of my friends/family have causght some balls or been glanced by them. I have see people hit by balls, many not paying attention to the game. And any time I see people with their kids sitting in those seats of 6 or younger I ask myself what are these people thinking? The only thing worse than that are mothers sitting with their infants on their laps in those seats. Kind of using them as ball protectors. The stadiums are fine, it’s the stupidity or inattention of some of the fans which cause the problem.
Dave, fans on the foul lines are the most vulnerable since the line drives often curve foul. A lot of these fans have gloves and want to catch a foul. The ones that get hurt are often texting on their cell and not paying attention.
Now we have an explanation for your warped behavior. Your dad took you to a game when you were three and you were hit right in the forehead with a foul ball. You went from normalcy to completely out of your mind weird from then on. How in the world did you manage to get through your Common Core school?
Well, first off Cliven, my family tree branches out unlike yours. I didn’t go to baseball games because Baseball is like watching golf or NASCAR. Third a Common Core school might do Texico good. Rather than dumb the motherland down to the colony level, it may just bring the slag of Texico up to par with America. And yes Cliven, the Earth is older than 6000. Common Core Education, rule by the pen, if you like your plan you can keep your plan, vacuum. Sounds like you still have a boner for Frank Luntz and the “Words that Work” Work on brainwashing conservatives that is.
September 15, 2014 at 9:59 am
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Baseball rule huh? Well, can someone tell me which concept of law allows an 8 y/o to make a legally competent decision to assume the risk?
David, Kudos on this well-written, informative, and entertaining post. We have all seen some unfortunate inattentive people get hit by errant foul balls, as well as people try to catch foul balls, and injuring themselves trying to do so. However, I’m guessing that few of us understood the scope of injury from this All-American pastime. I’m not sure whether in light of faster and stronger players and more modern stadium designs that get the fans closer to the action that the baseball rule is still a good idea, but your blog is thought provoking.
Anytime a fan attends a baseball game you take a risk of being hit with a foul ball. Any fan of baseball wants to be closer to the field in order to get a better chance of catching a foul ball.
The current baseball is white with red laces. Why don’t they change the color to orange. This way you can see the ball a lot better. A white ball get lost in the lights. An orange ball would be a lot easier to see visually. The NCAA softball use a florescent yellow ball.
Been there done that by Charlie Finley in 1973:
http://www.baseballreliquary.org/AlertOrangeBaseball.htm
Perhaps someone can address the objections raised by players back then and revive this idea.
I remember Charlie Finley proposed using an orange baseball. He stated that an orange baseball would be a lot easier to see, especially at night. The white ball get lost in the lights.
When I’m at O.com stadium for a baseball game. I ‘m there to watch the game not texting on my phone.
Tennis went to yellow balls many years ago because the white ones were hard to see. Some golfers play yellow or orange balls so they can be seen better. I am not sure orange baseballs will keep fans from being hit by screaming line drives into the stands, especially if the fan isn’t paying attention to the action as many of them do.
I have great seats 7 rows behind the vistor’s on deck circle at U.S Cellular Field. There’s no screen between me and the field and I don’t want one. I’ve caught some balls and some of my friends/family have causght some balls or been glanced by them. I have see people hit by balls, many not paying attention to the game. And any time I see people with their kids sitting in those seats of 6 or younger I ask myself what are these people thinking? The only thing worse than that are mothers sitting with their infants on their laps in those seats. Kind of using them as ball protectors. The stadiums are fine, it’s the stupidity or inattention of some of the fans which cause the problem.
Dave, fans on the foul lines are the most vulnerable since the line drives often curve foul. A lot of these fans have gloves and want to catch a foul. The ones that get hurt are often texting on their cell and not paying attention.
Thanks again captain obvious.
“fans on the foul lines are the most vulnerable since the line drives often curve foul. A lot of these fans have gloves and want to catch a foul.”
I thought you were not allowed near little league games, Cliven
Now we have an explanation for your warped behavior. Your dad took you to a game when you were three and you were hit right in the forehead with a foul ball. You went from normalcy to completely out of your mind weird from then on. How in the world did you manage to get through your Common Core school?
Well, first off Cliven, my family tree branches out unlike yours. I didn’t go to baseball games because Baseball is like watching golf or NASCAR. Third a Common Core school might do Texico good. Rather than dumb the motherland down to the colony level, it may just bring the slag of Texico up to par with America. And yes Cliven, the Earth is older than 6000. Common Core Education, rule by the pen, if you like your plan you can keep your plan, vacuum. Sounds like you still have a boner for Frank Luntz and the “Words that Work” Work on brainwashing conservatives that is.
Baseball rule huh? Well, can someone tell me which concept of law allows an 8 y/o to make a legally competent decision to assume the risk?
In Texico, assumed risk begins at conception
David, Kudos on this well-written, informative, and entertaining post. We have all seen some unfortunate inattentive people get hit by errant foul balls, as well as people try to catch foul balls, and injuring themselves trying to do so. However, I’m guessing that few of us understood the scope of injury from this All-American pastime. I’m not sure whether in light of faster and stronger players and more modern stadium designs that get the fans closer to the action that the baseball rule is still a good idea, but your blog is thought provoking.