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One time a baseball player was up at bat and hit a line drive ball, it reached the stands but what we thought was a home run turned into a disaster. It landed in the crowd along the third base side and struck a 9-year-old girl. She was rushed to a Hospital and released the next day with a swollen eye and a severely broken nose. Baseball is a dangerous sport for the fans in the seats. Fans shouldn't have to worry about the ball coming in the bleachers and smacking them in the middle of the face. I think Baseball needs to take more precautions to protect fans. It will reduce injuries, the teams will feel better knowing the fans can’t get hurt, more fans will come to baseball knowing their safe.

 One reason why I think we should have more safety precautions in baseball is because it will reduce injuries. When the injuries are reduced friends or family can focus more on each other and not the ball coming in the stands. When you’re in the stands you will want to focus a little bit on your friends and family but the minute you look away you could get socked in the head and have severe injuries or in extreme causes death. Also fans can be more focused on what they paid for. They won’t have to worry about the ball coming in and hurting them. They can focus and not worry about the worst case scenarios. Because of no safety 4,000 fans get hurt every year in baseball because of incoming foul balls. Sometimes us people don’t pay attention and when we don’t pay attention in that little nick of time something tragic can happen. A rookie infielder John Wagle, ripped a foul ball into the stands at Foster field in the month of June hitting a mother of 2 in her left temple. It was a month before her 40th birthday, Wendy Whitehead died from the hit on June 12. It’s crazy what happens in the tiniest amount of time.

 Another reason why there should be more safety precautions in sports is because more fans will come to each game knowing their safe. When more fans come to each game the team will make more money because of the fans who bought the tickets. When the team makes more money they can buy nicer stuff for practice or games. They can even buy more players to make their team improve so they have a chance at something different. When more fans come to games the team will play better because of more encouragement. With more encouragement the team will play better and when they play better they are likely to make it to a world series some time. If we have more safety the fans will be relieved if the ball starts barreling towards them at 99 mph. “Whenever I go to a baseball game, i’m frightened that a foul ball will shoot into the stands and hit me, i’ll be relieved if there’s netting where foul balls occur,” said Mrs Preston 5th grade teacher at College View Elementary. Some people are frightened of foul balls occurring.

 The Last reason is the team will play better knowing the fans can’t get hurt. When the team plays better they’re more likely to win. Also the players will have more focus. The players will focus more because of the netting that will protect the fans. so if the players do shoot a foul ball into the stands the player won’t have to worry about someone getting hurt. Last the coach won’t have to worry if the ball goes into the stands, because it won’t hit any fan because of the safety precautions. Without more safety the coach will be scared because if the ball hits someone the coach will be sad the whole game and you don’t want a sad coach on a big team because you WILL lose because of the coach.

The baseball player smacked the ball and it was a line drive ball it reached the stands, hit the netting and landed safely on the the ground in the foul ball area, the 9 year old girl cheered for her team and ended the game with her team winning. What was supposed to be a trip to the hospital turned out to be a fun and exciting trip with her family.