Foul Ball Safety Advocate Jordan Skopp Urges Groundskeepers and Concession Stand Workers To Raise Awareness About Unsafe Baseball Stadiums

Life-long baseball fan and stadium safety advocate Jordan Skopp is calling for employees working for Major and Minor League Baseball to come forward and join the common-sense chorus of foul ball fan injury victims who are saying, “Enough is enough. Let’s stop the madness!”

While some MLB players have, at times, called for better safety netting coverage and fan protection, their efforts have been ineffective at bringing about genuine change, and the tally of foul ball fan injuries continues to rack up.

“Now it’s time for those who work inside baseball to step up, beat the drum, acknowledge this historic wrong, and make it right before another fan is maimed or killed,” Skopp says. “Former and present baseball employees should come forward. I’m calling on everyone from the concession worker to groundskeepers to the bat boy or girl to come forward with their stories. Broadcasters, lawyers, players unions, and team owners can all bring accountability for the past and help fix the present ongoing dire emergency.”

Skopp has been building a common-sense movement to pressure both the Major and Minor Leagues to extend their ballpark safety netting coverage to prevent foul balls from injuring fans of the game. He has self-funding the initiative, including its flagship Foul Ball Safety Now website, which contains statistics, injury studies, firsthand testimonies, and a petition addressed to the head of Major League Baseball asking him and the team owners to extend safety netting at all professional baseball stadiums, including the minor leagues.

With today’s announcement, Skopp hopes to crowdsource on-the-ground intelligence at all of the 42 Minor League ballparks that Foul Ball Safety Now identified as lacking sufficient safety netting coverage beyond the dugouts. He is asking baseball employees and fan volunteers to take photos and notes about the current netting situation at each ballpark.

“We will work together with employees and fans to determine what the naked eye can already see — what the insiders to the game already know – that there is not sufficient netting to protect families from dangerous foul balls.”

In April, Skopp released studies of both Major and Minor League ballparks that revealed shortcomings in safety netting coverage. You can find those reports at Foul Ball Safety Now!

About Jordan Skopp

Jordan Skopp is a baseball fan, stadium safety advocate, and author of an upcoming book detailing foul ball injuries at professional parks and what can be done to ensure fan safety. Skopp is the founder of foulballsafetynow.com.