The Baseball Rule Redux

By Gil Fried and Takao Ohashi   Most of those familiar with sport law, especially the liability side, know about the “baseball rule.” The rule as applied by many courts for almost 100 years is that an owner or operator of a ballpark should not be held liable if a patron is hit by a projectile leaving the field if the owner/operator has provided enough screened seats for those who might demand such protected seats and if the most dangerous part(s) of the ballparks are protected. The law