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**​A Metal Baseball Bat Puts Teen in Critical Condition** ​Original story from //NBC Sports:// [|Teen Hit in Head by Batted Baseball Clings to Life]

I found this article on NBC Sports Online, which is a site that has very few conservatives working and is generally liberal. I chose the article for the assignment because I love everything about sports. It was also interesting to me that a baseball hit by a metal bat left a teenage boy in a medical induced coma for eight days and his doctors not liking the brain scans he was producing.

This article about a 16-year old baseball pitcher from a Nothern California high school getting hit in the head with a baseball hit by a metal bat. Metal bat are more dangerous than wooden bats because the weight is distributed more evenly and it makes the bat easier to swing faster. Gunnar Sandberg was hit with the baseball abruptly on March 11 while pitching during a practice game. His recent injury has a lot of parents worried about the metal vs wooden bat conflict. Some coaches and parents believe that a metal bat makes the ball travel faster, thus reducing the reaction time a player would have to actually catch the ball. The tone of this article is some what protective, because head injuries are really serious and can leaver permanent damage. Parents are also concered because death has resulted many times in this situation.

The //Huffington Post// published the same exact [|article] because it was written by Sudhin Thanawala, an Associated Press author. Associated Press [|is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations]. Many other online newspapers have the same article as well.

The end of the story relates to another boy that was in the same situation, but didn't survive the head injury. His family recieved $800,000 from the bat company Louisville Slugger because the company had failed to warn customers about the product's dangers. The article then took a sympathetic tone because many mothers will realize a baseball to the head could happen to their son, just as easily. Sandberg's school and baseball team have decided to bat with wooden bats for the remainder of the season.