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The New York Post’s Headline Is Better Than Anything I’ve Got: “Base Accusation”
Three years ago, wee Martin Gonzalez was enjoying himself some Little League. The 12-year-old has just gotten his first hit of the season, and went racing towards first base. As he approached, the first-base coach waved him on, telling him to take second. So Gonzalez kept going and, trying to ensure that he wouldn’t wind up getting out, he decided to slide into second. This was, it turns out, an ill-fated decision. Gonzalez wound up with a host of injuries which took surgery to correct (and his mother claims that he still has scarring and some physical impairment). So, of course, his moms filed a lawsuit earlier this month.
Jean Gonzalez filed her suit against her son’s coach, the local little league association, and its parent organization. She claims that they all - ahem - dropped the ball, by failing to teach her son proper training to avoid or minimize injuries (i.e., base running and sliding skills). Of course, others say that this is a stupid lawsuit, and that injury is just part of the game (and you can count me in that camp):
“I think it’s kind of funny,” Tricia Gregoretti said last week at New Springville’s ball field while watching her 6-year-old-son play. “It just doesn’t make sense.”
QuizLaw tried to ask famed slider Pete Rose for a comment on this story, but he only said: “Three-to-one that the case is dismissed. Come on, you know you want some action on this case.”
Comments
My grandfather used to lease land to the local Optimist club for $1/year for them to have a ballfield. He had to quit when the idiot parents of an idiot kid sued him because the kid slid into FIRST base (of her own volition) and broke her ankle. Took forever for the courts to finally throw the case out; they kept continuing because they were so backlogged.
Posted by Christi | May 25, 2007 12:49 PM