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  • July 2008

    • Cape Cod Baseball Brawl Ends in Court

      Cape Cod Times  |  Jul 7, 08 5:15 PM CDT

      Cape Cod Baseball Brawl Ends in Court

      (Newser) - A Cape Cod man is in police custody after allegedly beating another man with a baseball bat because he believed—mistakenly, it turns out—that the other man was a New York Yankees fan. Robert Correia and his friends noticed New York license plates on a car leaving a fireworks display in Falmouth, Mass., Friday night and allegedly assaulted William Nestor, the Cape Cod Times reports. More »

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      New York  • assault  • Cape Cod  • baseball bats

  • June 2008

    • A Simple Fix for Flying Bats: Better Maple

      New York Times  |  Jun 13, 08 9:45 AM CDT

      A Simple Fix for Flying Bats: Better Maple

      (Newser) - After steroids, shattering maple bats may be baseball's top-priority issue right now, one that promises to be a sticky problem, writes the New York Times . But Sam Holman, the founder of the first company to supply maple bats to the majors, thinks the answer may be a simple one: crack down on makers who cut corners. More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • injury  • baseball bats  • maple bats

    • MLB's Next Crackdown May Be Maple Bats

      USA Today  |  Jun 3, 08 3:10 PM CDT

      MLB's Next Crackdown May Be Maple Bats

      (Newser) - Barry Bonds may soon be the face of another Major League Baseball investigation: into the dangers of maple bats. The slugger's choice of wood has a growing following among players, but incidents of flying shards injuring fans and coaches have sparked a movement to ban the bats, USA Today reports. A safety summit on June 24 will take up the issue. More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • Barry Bonds  • injury  • baseball bats  • Chad Gaudin  • maple bats

  • March 2008

    • Killing Exposes Sumo's Brutality

      Washington Post  |  Mar 10, 08 4:50 PM CDT

      Killing Exposes Sumo's Brutality

      (Newser) - Seventeen-year-old sumo wrestler Takashi Saito was beaten to death 8 months ago, but the Japan Sumo Association took until last Thursday to punish the alleged culprits—Saito’s trainer and three fellow wrestlers. The dawdling response was much too slow to prevent a public relations disaster: Japan now knows that most sumo stables have baseball bats—to beat wrestlers with. More »

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      Japan  • Takashi Saito  • baseball bats  • beatings  • sumo wrestling

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