As the father of four boys who spends more time on youth baseball fields then any other adult in the United States, I was a bit dismayed to read about a 17 - year - old
pitcher in Prince George's
County, Md. who fractured his right arm while throwing a pitch in a baseball game — and then somehow obtained a $ 52,703 jury verdict against the tournament organizer for building a mound that was «too big and too deep.»