This entirely preventable epidemic of serious foul ball injuries to fans will continue to haunt Major League Baseball as long as basic precautionary measures are not taken to mandate comprehensive extended netting. Worse still, the problem will remain even more precarious for fans at the minor league professional levels, where ballparks are sorely lacking in adequate protective netting. 

In his forthcoming book, Jordan Skopp argues passionately that it is high time for accountability in professional baseball, not only to take immediate action to protect fans from unnecessary risks from dangerous foul balls, but also to look back at all of the ways that baseball owners, executives, lawyers, broadcasters, journalists, even players and coaches, have failed their fans.

It's also time to abolish the Baseball Rule, shielding baseball team owners and MLB executives from responsibility for these all-too-frequent maimings. Abolishing it would give those hurt or killed the recourse to recover for extensive medical expenses and punitive damages.

Cover-up or scandal? 

What could the players’ union, broadcasters and baseball journalists have done about this hidden (and out in the open) crisis for a half a century? Skopp will let the readers decide.