Montana Jury Faults Aluminum Bats For Not Having Warning Labels

A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.


Let the discussion begin.

I am not going to make a statement on weather or not the judgement was excessive or even reasonable.

Just a question, major league uses wood bats, why do they use aluminum bats in lesser leagues? One would think the ultimate aspiration would be to become major leauge, why "practice" for the majors with different equipment?

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1987 300 D
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2006 CDI Handed down to daughter
2007 GL CDI. Wifes

Aluminum give you better distance and is lighter. Most people suck at hitting the ball, they need all the help they can get.

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1984 300TD

Simple economics. Lower levels cannot afford to keep replacing wooden bats that break. Metal bats last way longer.

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Slightly lower potential for injury as well, since you don't have splintered bats flying around. Some HS and college pitchers can really fling the ball these days.

What kid would read a label? Would he have not played ball if he read the label? You can get killed by a wild pitch, you don't need a bat for that to happen. Sad but no fault of the bat company.

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I agree. Pitchers need to be labeled.

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1984 300TD

We’re waiting for the day we have to put warning stickers on our airplane propellers:

“When this propeller is spinning. Walking into it may cause severe bodily harm or even death.”

Something tells me, with this kind of BS going on, that day isn’t too far off.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

If it is on the prop, how do I read it while it is moving?

Gotta put a "Don't read the sign" on the prop. Someone will walk up to it and go "Don't read th................."

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Well... I don't think they intend for the sign on the bat to be read while it's being swung.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

Sticker...........hell............you're going to have to put a full guard around it.

Every so often a ground personnel walks into one of those on one of the twins.............but, it hasn't yet grounded the fleet..............

my little brother uses a bamboo bat. He's broken enough wooden bats and cracked or severely dented the aluminum bats enough

I despair for the future of our country.

My wife has a hair dryer that actually says "do not use in shower" and "do not use while sleeping".

We can do without these people; the gene pool needs a little chlorine every now and then.

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Unless stated otherwise, any question I ask is about my greymarket 1985 380SEL.

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Somewhere out there are extension ladders with stickers that say: “Do not place on frozen cow manure.” because some farmer did so to sweep the snow off his barns roof. Then, in the spring went to climb back up and the ladder fell over and he broke his arm.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

Labels are never proactive, someone ate it in the shower and a subsequent lawsuit was the cause of said label.

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