Coroner: Fan struck in head by foul ball during Dodgers game died of blunt force injury
A California woman died in August as a result of being hit in the head by a batted ball at Dodger Stadium, according to a Los Angeles County coroner's report obtained by ESPN's Outside the Lines and details her daughter reve aled to OTL in December.
Linda Goldbloom, a mother of three and grandmother of seven, died on Aug. 29. The coroner's report states the cause as "acute intracranial hemorrhage due to history of blunt force trauma" and states that the injury occurred when she was struck in the head with a baseball during the Aug. 25 game at Dodger Stadium.It happened last August but the report was released only recently. A freak, tragic accident but not the first one. Fortunately, deaths from being struck by a baseball at a MLB game are very, very rare.