Our Sponsors Baseball Video Games U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Radica USA Ltd. is voluntarily recalling 140,000 baseball video games to replace the bats. The bats can separate during a swing.
Broken pieces can hit a bystander and cause injury.
Radica USA Ltd. has received seven reports of consumers, including children, being hit by pieces of the broken bat, resulting in a split lip, facial lacerations, a bump on the head and bruising. Play TV Baseball is a video game that plugs directly into a television set, and simulates hitting a baseball. It contains an electronic home plate, ball and plastic bat. The user faces the television standing above the electronic home plate, which emits an infrared beam. When a simulated pitch is made on the television screen, the user swings the bat to hit the simulated ball.