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Although baseball is not considered a contact sport, players suffer a large number of injuries:

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• According to estimates and 2006 data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, more than a quarter of a million children (398,665) ages 5 through 14 years are injured playing baseball each year.

• A recent survey found that among athletes ages 5 to 14, fully one quarter (25%) have been injured playing baseball. Yet, in a three-year study of high school athletes in ten sports, the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) , found that baseball had the lowest injury rate of the high school sports studied (11.8 per 100 players).

• Of that total, 95,000 suffer injuries serious enough to require treatment in hospital emergency departments.

• Of injured high school baseball players included in a three-year study by the only one out of one hundred (1.1%) required surgery for their injuries.

• Of injuries suffered by baseball players, the most common were:

• Abrasions (scrapes), contusions (bruises), lacerations (cuts), muscle cramps/spasms (36.6% of all injuries suffered by high school players);

• Strains (a partial or complete tear of a muscles or tendons)(32.7% of all injuries suffered by high school players)

• Sprains (a partial or complete tear of a ligaments around a joint -- shoulder, wrist, finger, knee,ankle, toe)(16.2%), or

• Fractures (the highest proportion of injuries (8.8%) in this category for high school players)

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