HOUSTON – A recreational athletic facility in League City is blamed for a head injury allegedly sustained by a female spectator during a youth baseball tournament last month.
Rachel Teykl filed a lawsuit against Big League Dreams League City, LLC on July 24 in the Harris County 151st District Court, stating she was struck in the temple by a baseball.
Teykl was watching her son compete in the tournament at the time of the incident in question. She claims that “suddenly and without warning a baseball skipped off the top of a dugout and launched into the stands” where she was at.
“The baseball was thrown from a team exercising in a ‘warm up’ area adjacent to the ball field,” the suit says.
The plaintiff was rushed to the hospital where “a CT scan revealed an excruciatingly painful comminuted fracture of her right zygomatic arch.”
Court papers add that Teykl underwent maxilla-facial surgery in which “a rod was inserted under her skull to ‘pop’ the fractured bones back into place to promote re-fusion.”
According to the complaint, Big League Dreams “failed to provide a safe seating area to prevent injuries to parents and spectators alike.”
“Unlike other baseball facilities who cater to youth teams, the defendant allowed teams to warm-up in common areas that placed spectators in harm’s way and failed to implement even the most basic safety precautions such as protective netting, protective fencing, or signs forbidding the play of baseball outside of the ballfields,” the suit says.
Consequently, Teykl seeks unspecified monetary damages and a jury trial.
She is represented by Clifford D. Peel, II of The Peel Law Firm in Houston.
Harris County 151st District Court Case No. 2018-49039