“You can see right through the nets, so what’s the big deal?” Brody said. The Dodgers announced that day that they would comply, but some teams held out, reluctant to alienate fans in expensive lower-level seats. The Yankees were one of those teams but relented last January, a few months after a foul ball severely injured a toddler behind the third-base dugout. That reduces fans’ reaction time in an era that also features bigger, faster and stronger players. Brody said she was not sure which player hit the foul ball that killed her mother — “It doesn’t matter,” she said — but she would like baseball to improve the safety for fans.

Source: New York Times February 06, 2019 02:18 UTC