Court Reverses after Finding Incident on Field Fell Outside Inherent Nature of Baseball

The Supreme Court of Iowa has overturned the rulings of a trial court and an appeals court, remanding for further consideration a softball player’s personal injury claim against a co-participant, who released his bat on a pitched ball, striking the plaintiff in the head.   In so ruling, the court found generally that the incident was not an inherent part of the game and thus a standard of recklessness applied with regard to whether a defendant was liable.   Benjamin Feld and Luke Bor