Abstract
Little League experience shows that injuries can be reduced by eliminating steel spikes and the on-deck circle, screening dugouts, using face protectors for batters, and using breakaway bases if sliding is permitted.
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Creighton J. Hale
Dr. Hale is president of Little League Baseball in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He presented this paper at the Symposium on the Prevention and Management of Baseball Injuries in Newark, New Jersey, in March 1979.