Appeals Court Sides with Team in Foul Ball Case

Ignorance is no defense when a person attends a baseball game, is injured by an errant foul ball, and subsequently sues the home team for negligence.   That was the conclusion of a Massachusetts appeals court, which affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a woman who attended a Boston Red Sox game assumed the risk of injury when she took her seat up the first base line. Central to the plaintiff’s claim was that the plaintiff knew very little about the game and that the Red Sox’s warnings