15-Year-Old Baseball Player Dies After Getting Hit in Head with Ball During Practice
By Natasha Dye
Published on March 12, 2026.
High school sophomore, Bentley Wolfe, was killed after being hit in the head by a baseball during practice in Illinois. Wolfe, a student at Chrisman High School in Chrisman, was pronounced brain dead after being transported to a hospital in critical condition three days earlier. An autopsy revealed that Wolfe suffered detrimental head trauma due to blunt force trauma. His mother, Samantha Simpson, announced her son's death on Facebook and asked her friends and family to never forget him.
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