PINEHURST, Idaho — Little league baseball season is getting underway, but that hasn’t been good news for one North Idaho family.
The homeowner said their property keeps getting damaged by foul balls from a nearby baseball field and one of them was even hit in the face by a ball.
The sound of a baseball hitting a house or car has become regular occurrence around the property where Vanessa Christensen and her family live.
Baseballs have been flying onto her property from the baseball field next door multiple times per week during the season.
The field was undergoing renovations when they first got to Pinehurst, but it reopened in 2024.
“We have a ton of damage to our siding, there’s just peppered balls that are clearly baseball dents,” Vanessa Christensen said, “so we’ve just been dealing with that damage and finding balls and chewed up balls.”
Christensen said the baseballs have broken windshields on their cars and more recently made her scared to be in her own backyard.
“We were hanging out in the backyard, it was the first actual nice day this year and I was holding him,” Christensen said, “I was standing in the middle to the end of my backyard and I got hit in the face by a baseball. It gave me a black eye.”
She also installed cameras on her house to capture some of the damage, hoping the Silver Valley Little League and the Silver Valley Baseball Club would understand her concerns.
“I love baseball,” Christensen said, “I want the kids to play and that is important but somebody needs to step up and rectify the damage that’s been done to our house and make a permanent solution.”
The Kellogg School District owns the land that the baseball field sits on and said a solution could be coming this week.
Its superintendent said Avista plans to donate poles and a local volunteer plans to donate netting to keep foul balls from being hit onto Christensen’s property.
The district said that work could be completed by this Friday.
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