Head Injuries and Baseball

By Howard M. Wasserman, Professor of Law, FIU College of Law   The problem of concussions and head trauma--the source of litigation, consternation, and bad press for the National Football League the past several years--is coming to baseball.   Last month, posthumous examination of the brain of former Major Leaguer Ryan Freel, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2012, showed signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), the degenerative brain disease often found in athlet