New York Mets fan Alexander Swanson sued the team after he took a hit to the eye from a rolled up T-shirt fired from a cannon during a June 2019 game at Citi Field, which attracted widespread attention from the New York City press at the time.
Swanson claims that, in the approximately 100 Mets homes games he’s attended in his lifetime, he never viewed a T-shirt launch as a “dangerous activity.” On the day on the injury, Swanson testified, he got up from his seat during a launch and moved toward the field in an attempt to grab a T-Shirt of his own.
