HBT: Sveum accidentally shot by Yount on quail hunt

Adding to his already impressive total of 3,142 hits, Hall of Famer Robin Yount accidentally shot Cubs manager Dale Sveum while hunting quail in Arizona, MLB.com?s Carrie Muskat reports.

?The bird went up in front of [Yount] and I was about 50 yards up on the hill,? Sveum said. ?He got the bird up and lost track of where I was and pulled the trigger and was like, ?Uh oh.? I was looking for birds myself and he was behind me. I got drilled with pellets in the back and the ear.?

In Yount?s defense, he probably thought Sveum was waving him in.

While Sveum said there was some blood involved, he didn?t need stitches for the ear.

Yount and Sveum were Brewers teammates for five years in the 1980s and early 90s and also worked together with the Brewers before Sveum became the Cubs? manager last season.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/04/dale-sveum-was-shot-by-robin-yount-while-hunting-quail/related/

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