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<\/a>I love baseball, and I like hot dogs, and I was surprised to see them intersect in a personal injury<\/a> case. But yesterday, I saw that they did.<\/p>\nYesterday, the Missouri Supreme Court held that the “baseball rule”, which protects teams from being sued for fan injuries caused by events on the field, does not protect sports teams when their mascots cause injuries.<\/p>\n
In this case, the Kansas City Royals mascot was throwing hot dogs into the stands.\u00a0 One of the hot dogs hit John Coomer in the eye, resulting in him having two surgeries to repair his damaged eye.<\/p>\n
Originally, the jury was instructed that being hit by the hot dog was an inherent risk of attending a sporting event.\u00a0 But the Missouri Supreme Court noted that there is nothing inherent about wayward mascots at sporting events.\u00a0 The Court noted that mascots aren’t a part of baseball; we’ve played baseball a long time (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love baseball, and I like hot dogs, and I was surprised to see them intersect in a personal injury case. But yesterday, I saw that they did. Yesterday, the Missouri Supreme Court held that the “baseball rule”, which protects…<\/span><\/p>\n