Manning v. Municipal Court of the Roxbury District

In the evening of September 16,1975, just after the end of the third inning of a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles, the plaintiff, a spectator in the right field bleachers at Fenway Park, was struck in the head by a baseball thrown from the visiting team’s bullpen by Ross Grimsley, a Baltimore Oriole pitcher. The plaintiff sought and ultimately obtained a complaint from the Municipal Court of the Rox-bury District (Municipal Court) charging Grimsley with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. A probable cause hearing was held in that court in April,…