AKRON, Ohio -- Doctors in northeast Ohio say a 4-year-old boy who was struck in the head by a foul ball at a minor league baseball game is in critical condition with a fractured skull. Doctors say it may take five days for the swelling in Luke Holko's brain to subside. It's unclear how well he'll recover. Holko and his family had front-row seats near first base for Wednesday's doubleheader at the home of the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, a short-season Class A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians.
Holko was hit in the back of the head as he sat in his father's lap and talked to his mother. Paramedics took him to a local hospital. During a news conference Friday at Akron Children's Hospital, the boy's mother, Nicole Holko of North Bloomfield, said her son loves baseball and that the accident won't stop the family from attending games.
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