Parents of a Little League baseball player who was hit in the head by a line drive during a game that included allegations of an altered bat have sued Little League for more than $1 million.
Emmett Parsutt Sr. and Elena Parsutt filed the suit Thursday in Galveston County's 212th State District Court on behalf of their son, Emmett Parsutt Jr., against League City Little League Inc. and Little League Inc.
Little League International officials in Pennsylvania had announced the day before that examination of the bat in question showed it was not altered. Altering a bat would be a violation of league rules.
Chance McMillan, the Parsutts' attorney, said the organization's announcement left the family with unanswered questions about the bat used in the July 1 championship game between the Santa Fe Little League All Stars and the League City Little League All Stars.
"We have concerns that the bat sent (to Pennsylvania) may not have been the bat used," McMillan said Tuesday.
"Little League has conducted a study on some kind of bat, but we need to know more about it."
On Monday, State District Judge Susan Criss granted the plaintiffs' emergency motion to preserve the bat as evidence, ordering the defendants not to perform any testing, especially destructive testing, on the bat.
Emmett Parsutt Jr. was the starting pitcher for the Santa Fe Little League All Stars team during the July 1 game against the League City Little League All Stars, according to the lawsuit.
League City won the game 8-0, winning the right to advance to regional tournaments.
During the game, which took place in Texas City, suspicion arose that League City was using an altered metal bat, the suit states.
In the fifth inning, a line drive struck Emmett Jr. in the head with "tremendous force - far beyond that of a regulation bat - and injured him," the suit states.
While Santa Fe parents and coaches were tending to the boy, a League City parent took the bat to the parking lot and locked it in his car, the suit alleges.
When the League City parent refused to let others see the bat, the Texas City police were called, the suit says.
The pitcher, meanwhile, was taken by ambulance to a hospital for treatment and still suffers headaches, McMillan said.
The boy's doctor has told him not to play any more baseball this summer, the attorney said.
A spokesman for Little League International South Williamsport, Pa., said the organization could not comment on pending litigation.
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