Sluggerrr, Royals mascot, takes stand in Case of the Errant Wiener

With the costume he used to wear on the floor by his feet, the man who played Sluggerrr for 13 years testified about the arcs and velocities of the hot dogs that he tossed to fans at Kauffman Stadium.

Byron Shores estimated that he threw thousands of foil-wrapped hot dogs into the crowd in his time as the Royals mascot. One fling resulted in a lawsuit. On September 8, 2009, John Coomer was sitting along the third-base line when Sluggerrr threw a hot dog that struck his eye; his suit says the food-borne collision resulted in a detached retina and cataracts.