A Wake-up Call for the MLB

This article that I found is all about an incident that happened during a Cubs baseball game. The batters maple bat broke into large pieces and one of the Cubs outfielders was punctured in the chest. This piece of bat just barely missed the player's lung. Even though his lung was not punctured he was hospitalized to prevent a collapsed lung. This has made the MLB think about the dangers of different kinds of bats that are used. In the article it says that these maple bats are much harder and when they break they break into larger pieces and disperse much farther than the softer ash wood bats. I think that this is an issue that needs to be considered more because of the risks that go along with it. This issue could become even more of a big deal if this piece of maple bat happened to fly into the crowd and punctured a fan. I found this issue very interesting because I am very interested in following sports and when I found out about this it incident I immediately thought that it was a great topic for my first blog post.

To read more about this issue follow this link: Wake up call for the MLB