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Fan Falls from Upper Deck
Fan Falls from Turner Field During Yankees-Braves, police say

Earlier this week a man was shouting at a player from the upper deck of Turner Field when suddenly he lost his balance and fell about 50 feet to the deck below. The 60 year old man struck a railing while falling. He received immediate medical attention, however he would later die at the hospital.
This affects me because I am a baseball fan and to see this happen again is terrible. There has been several cases in the past 10 years of people falling over the rails. In 2012 a fan at the Rangers game fell over 20 feet after trying to catch a ball thrown into the stands. The stadium ended up raising the rails around the entire stadium to try and prevent that from happening again. Although the higher rails are not a 100% guarantee of stopping it, its a good start.
This also affects people all across the nation. As other ballparks will now look into if they need to do the same in raising their rails. Even though it hasn’t happened at their stadium yet, if they don’t raise the rails it may end up happening in the future. However the cost raising the rails around the entire park would cost a lot of money. One ballpark estimated it would cost around 1.1 million dollars to raise their rails. This incident has caused much thinking around the nation.

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