Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff was allegedly injured during a softball game when he slipped on a sewer lid while running for a fly ball.
In general, voluntary participants in sports activities may be held to have consented, by their participation, to those injury-causing events which are known, apparent, or reasonably foreseeable consequences of their participation (see, Turcotte v Fell,
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