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A Montana jury on Wednesday awarded the parents of an 18-year-old boy $850,000 after their son, Brandon Patch, was killed in an American Legion game in  Helena in 2003 when a baseball hit with an aluminum Louisville Slugger baseball bat struck Patch in the head.

The maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats manufacturer, Hillerich & Bradsby, did not provide proper warning about the dangers of using aluminum bats, meaning that the jury did not find the bat itself to be defective. The special verdict says the failure to warn was the cause of the accident.