by joanna

Thought you might be interested in the following two stories that came across the Associated Press wire.

WRENTHAM, Mass. (AP) — It took 101 innings, there were 687 runs scored, and 817 children participated.
The players of the Wrentham Youth Baseball/Softball Association between the ages of 5 and 15 played for 36 straight hours over the weekend, raising an estimated $75,000 for charity.
The event was billed by organizers as the world’s longest baseball game. It began at 8:01 a.m. Saturday and ended at 8:01 p.m. Sunday.
Coordinator Jim Lucas says the post-game handshake took about 10 minutes.
The money is still being counted. It will go to a number of charities. The top fundraisers get to attend a lunch with former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling.
The final score was Away 348, Home 339.

NEW YORK (AP) — An 11-year-old New York City baseball player preparing for a team photo was shot in the head by an apparent stray bullet.
A police spokesman says the boy is in stable condition.
The boy’s family told investigators he was taking a picture with his team Sunday evening in Brooklyn when he grabbed his head and started crying. Relatives initially thought he’d been struck by a baseball.
Police say it was only after he was rushed to a hospital that the family learned a bullet had lodged between the boy’s skin and skull.
Investigators have no motives or suspects in the shooting.