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Kids Baseball Safety

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that softer-than standard baseballs, safety releases bases, and batting helmets with face guards could significantly reduce the amount and severity of 36 percent of baseball and softball injuries to kidseach year.

Baseball, softball, and teeball are among the most popular sports in the U.S., with an estimated 6 million kidsages 5 to 14 participating in organized leagues and 13 million kidsparticipating in non-league play. In 1995, hospital emergency rooms treated an estimated 162,100 kidsfor baseball-softball injuries. CPSC collected and analyzed data on baseball, softball, and teeball injuries to kidsto determine specifically how these kids were injured and what safety equipment could prevent such injuries.

CPSC found that baseball protective equipment currently on the market may protect from, decrease or stop the severity of injuries occurring to kids each year. Softer-than-standard balls may prevent, reduce, or lessen the severity of ball impact injuries to the head and neck.

Batting helmets with face guards may prevent, reduce, or lessen the severity of about 3,900 facial injuries occurring to batters in organized play.

Soft Core Ball

Safety release bases that leave no holes in the ground or parts of the base sticking up from the ground when the base is released may protect from, decrease or stop the severity of the 6,600 basecontact sliding injuries occurring in organized play.