OAKLAND, Calif. Adrian Peterson Jersey . -- Brandon McCarthys hair is growing back fast and that big scar on the right side of his head is hardly noticeable anymore. The Oakland Athletics pitcher feels nearly normal again just more than three weeks after undergoing brain surgery following a frightening injury in which a line drive off the bat of the Angels Erick Aybar struck him Sept. 5. So good, in fact, doctors have cleared him to play light catch Saturday -- a big deal in his recovery and for his immense boredom. Not once has he lost his sense of humour through the scary ordeal that the club referred to as "life-threatening" early on post-surgery. "I have really fast growing hair," McCarthy said. "Im already at the point now that I dont know what to do with it. Do I shave it again and keep showing off the scar? Im going to have to make a decision soon. Ive never shaved my head before. Now with the scar, I can walk around San Francisco and look tough." McCarthy stepped back on the field Friday night for the first time since his frightening injury to accept the As nomination for the Roberto Clemente Award, accompanied by wife, Amanda. He was a bit emotional in the dugout earlier given the outpouring of support from fans, players and teams around baseball surrounding the first trying, testing moment in his life, he said. He received a warm ovation from the sparse Coliseum crowd. "I think its really kind of what I need," said McCarthy, who has been practicing his mechanics in his living room. "Get my mind off everything, just kind of get back to doing stuff, just the sort of mental stimulation of it." McCarthy attended the series opener with Seattle on Friday night, exactly six months to the day after he was Oaklands opening day starter against the Mariners in Tokyo. He went 8-6 with a 3.24 ERA this year in his sixth big league season and second with the As. McCarthy was 9-9 with a 3.32 ERA last season. The pitcher expects his off-season throwing program to be like any other this winter, while monitoring himself for concussion symptoms. "There are times when I get a little mildly cloudy, but its not even something I would describe as being even annoying," he said. "Its the kind of feeling you have if youve had three drinks and are not quite sharp, I guess." He spends the off-season in Dallas. "Normal," McCarthy said of whats next. "Im just starting to go into atrophy here and boredom, so Ive got to do something physically to get the blood going again," McCarthy said. "And then when it gets into the off-season, a lot of it is just based on concussion symptoms and if I get headaches or something or a little dizzy doing something, then just scale back. I think you just kind of push against the wall until you find out what your bodys going to do and what it can get through, and then just sort of resume as normal." The 29-year-old McCarthy sustained an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and skull fracture on the play. A few days later, he was back on Twitter cracking jokes. "It wasnt like it was a surreal thing. When it happened I was aware of what happened for the most part," he said. "Everything kind of after is not fun ... but it was kind of something we had to get through. More than anything, I was really thirsty. I was on a salt drip for a few days, which is big for swelling on the brain. I couldnt drink water, I couldnt drink anything. Really, thats the one thing I remember from this whole thing, being unbelievably thirsty for about four days." While McCarthy can become a free agent after the season, he said he has plenty of things on his mind to worry too much about his baseball future. Though he made it clear he would love to stay put with the As. He credits the medical staff, general manager Billy Beane, assistant GM David Forst and so many others for their support through his injury. 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Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end Carl Eller, a former Minnesota Vikings star, was the lead plaintiff in the complaint that argued current players and their attorneys had no right to bargain with NFL owners about retiree benefits because they werent legally a union last summer. Michael Hausfeld, the lead lawyer for the retired players, said his group plans to appeal Nelsons decision to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. In an interview from his office in Washington, Hausfeld called Nelsons findings "elucidating and disappointing overall." There were several dozen ex-players, many of them Hall of Famers, on the lawsuit who felt they were cheated by the current players. They estimated between $300 million and $500 million in additional benefits they were promised in the early stages of collective bargaining agreement talks and didnt get when the labour dispute was settled last summer. They contended they were pushed out of negotiations to streamline the mediation process despite a court order for their inclusion. Those labour talks led to the new CBA between the owners and players and saved the 2011 season. The lawsuit naamed NFLPA boss DeMaurice Smith, New England quarterback Tom Brady and former Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel. Authentic Peterson Jersey. Brady and Vrabel were plaintiffs on the antitrust lawsuit filed by the current players against the NFL in March before the lockout. The unions response to the complaint was filed under seal, and the NFLPA has declined to comment on the case. "The decision says it is clear that the active players took advantage of the retirees situations to benefit themselves, and thats just a classical incident or consequence of the fact that they held all the marbles," Hausfeld said. "Thats a sad commentary on the functioning of the union, and its an even sadder commentary on the richest pro sport in the country." Nelson wrote that she accepted the factual allegations by the Eller class as true but disagreed that the current players acted illegally. She ruled that since the active players were negotiating their own contract with the league, they had no obligation to take "a smaller share of the pie for themselves" in order to give the retirees a bigger slice. The former players claimed the current players owed them a "fiduciary duty," but Nelson denied the legal existence of such a relationship. "And there can be no dispute that a better package of benefits was in fact obtained for the retired players in the 2011 CBA as compared to those in the former CBA. No jury could reasonably find that the active players did not do better by the retired players in the 2011 CBA," Nelson wrote. ' ' '