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Metal Or Wood? Depends Who You Ask

Posted April 02, 2007 12:00 AM EDT

By Marcus Helton

HARRISONBURG — Buddy Comer was on the ground before he even had time to flinch, the blood already pooling in his mouth from a wound that would take more than 100 stitches to close. Comer, a long-time baseball umpire, was standing on the third-base side of the pitcher during a game between Harrisonburg and Broadway High School last March when he was struck in the face by a line drive off a metal bat. "It just hit me before I could even get my he...

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