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May 7, 2008
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Batboy struck during warmup swing in Kansas dies
By Faith Karimi and Mary Helen Moore, CNN
Updated 1:15 AM ET, Mon August 3, 2015

9-year-old Kaiser Carlisle was accidentally hit in the head by a bat by a Liberal Bee Jays baseball player on deck Saturday.
Story highlights
Kaiser Carlile was hit by a warmup swing as he attempted to retrieve a bat
He was a batboy for the summer league baseball team for college players
(CNN)A 9-year-old who was hit with a bat during a baseball game in Kansas over the weekend has died.
 
May 7, 2008
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Apparently he had on a helmet. Age 9 is too young to be out there. I can't imagine what the young man swinging the bat is going through.
 
May 9, 2014
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That's so horrible! I can't imagine what they all must be going through! So the kid had a helmet on? Did the bat hit the helmet? Was it a regular heavy duty batting helmet or one of those light plastic ones that are just for show?


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Nov 29, 2009
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Agree that 9 years old is too young to be on the field with grown men.

Agreed. At that age kids do not have a full situational awareness of what's happening on the field. Tragic for the family, team and the player who swung the bat. I can't imagine what they are going through.

It reminds me of the game where Dusty Baker's son was scooped up at home by one of the scoring players just seconds before there was a possible play on the trailing runner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV7x8WcR4g
 

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