Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Boy injured at Wrigley doing well, leaves hospital

CHICAGO -- A 7-year-old boy whose skull was fractured by a foul ball at Wrigley Field is doing well and has been released from the hospital.

Dominic DiAngi of Frankfort headed home from Children's Memorial Hospital on Wednesday afternoon.

He wore a Cubs ball cap as he met with news reporters. His father, Peter DiAngi, says his son now has his "same old twinkle in his eye."

Last Thursday, Dominic was sitting behind the Cubs' dugout during an afternoon game when a foul ball off Ted Lilly's bat struck him in the head. Paramedics took him to Children's Memorial.

The game was the first major league game the boy had ever attended.

Lilly and Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee visited the boy Saturday at the hospital.


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