A deranged Staten Island mom is suing her son’s former baseball coach for bad coaching.  Geez! I could have sued about twelve different men for bad coaching growing up if there was a remedy in court for bad coaching.

In a new twist on an old rite of passage, Jean Gonzalez is suing a beloved veteran coach for not teaching her son Martin how to slide properly, according to a lawsuit filed on May 4.

The litigation stems from an ill-fated play exactly three years earlier, when Martin, then 12, whacked his first hit of the season and was told to go for second by his first-base coach.

When he slid into second base, he suffered “serious bodily injury” that required multiple surgeries and caused “permanent scarring and disability,” according to the suit filed in Staten Island Supreme Court. The suit did not specify the dollar amount of damages.

Martin’s coach, Leigh Bernstein, the New Springville Little League, and its international umbrella organization, Little League Baseball and Softball Inc., are all named as defendants in the suit, which charges them with never teaching him “skills needed to avoid and/or minimize the risks of injury,” specifically how to run bases and slide.

This is a very litigious lawsuit and she doesn’t have a chance of succeeding unless it is proven that the coach was negligent in some form or fashion which is VERY unlikely.