Jackie Robinson West Broke Residency Rules, Suburban League Claims (Little League WS)

DNA Info ^ | December 16, 2014 | Mark Konkol

[C19fan]

The Jackie Robinson West sluggers from Chicago’s struggling South Side became national celebrities this summer when they hit and pitched their way to the Little League World Series and took home the U.S title.

But now the adults who put together the team — parents, coaches and league administrators — face allegations they violated Little League residency rules by stacking the lineup with All-Star ringers from the suburbs to create a “super team” that became champs.

[C19fan]

/src on/Those racist, and privileged white suburbanites trying to take down an African-American success story. Whitey after spending tens of thousands on lessons and baseball camps fro little Johnny Appleseed crying foul when beaten by a poor black team./src off/This sounds like a repeat of the Danny Almonte scandal when the team of Dominican Republicans from the Bronx USA made it to the Little League WS with Almonte being the Little League version of Randy Johnson. It turned out Almonte was a ringer being too old to play Little League and the Bronx team had its wins stripped.

[Dilbert San Diego]

What the heck? So now recruiting violations happen in Little League?? Well, if they broke the rules they need to be accountable. If there are rules about where the kids live and how old they are, they need to follow the rules.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Recruiting issues are huge in sports. Coaches want to win at all costs which is why I love beating teams who are stacked with all-stars.

[minnesota_bound]

Kinda like the much too old Taiwanese players who kept winning the series each year.

[mmichaels1970]

Tammy King, whose child Eddie King Jr. was hailed as a proud son of south suburban Lynwood by the village’s mayor, said her family lives within the Jackie Robinson West boundaries.

“We used to live there years ago, but do not live in Lynwood anymore,” she said. “I’m in the city of Chicago but do not have to disclose where I live.”.....

.....She and her husband, Eddie L. King, are registered as active voters in Lynwood and cast ballots there in the Nov. 4 election, public records show.

So it's voter fraud then?

[LadyBuck]

“Welcome to the majors, Mr. Hobbs”

[yoe]

Isn’t this how our Olympic teams are put together?

[AppyPappy]

Chinese gymnasts who haven’t hit puberty yet.

[pepsionice]

As a kid in the mid-1970s....the local high school had attracted a fast-rising basketball coach, and over a two-year period...he’d turned the high school into a power-house. In the third year, they had two new guys appear out of nowhere for the 12th grade. They were now state-level talent with the previous players and these two. The next year...another two players appeared out of nowhere for the final year. The four previously unknown guys all got scholorships to regional colleges in Alabama. Then the coach left, and the whole team went down several notches.

This gimmick has been around for decades.

[Mr. K]

They were just trying to teach the kids how to be good Democrats!

[Osage Orange]

Basically and without remorse...she is saying..we can lie, cheat and steal...and you can’t do anything about it!

[tomkat]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3237879/posts

[technically right]

Yeah, Catholic high schools do it all the time.

[mmichaels1970]

Yeah, Catholic high schools do it all the time.

Where I live, Catholic high schools don't even need to resort to shenanigans to recruit. They recruit at will. It's the public schools, who are annually dominated by the Catholic schools in the state tournaments, who resort to chicanery to try to compete.

Lots of dads who accept a job in the district area who find it more convenient to "move out" and get a tiny little apartment within the district where it is obviously "in the best interest of the child" to reside as well.

This happens a lot when the child is in 8th grade for some reason. Probably has nothing to do with once a child is eligible for HS sports, he loses a year of eligibility if he moves to another school district.

[Don Corleone]

Yeah, Catholic high schools do it all the time.

Catholic HS are not restricted to geographical boundaries.

[skinndogNN]

It’s Daddy Ball. It happens to everyone in every sport 13 years old or younger. Politics. This parent doesn’t like this parent or kid.

[blueunicorn6]

One of the high schools in our little city had a coach who followed the De la Salle formula. It worked great for him for ten years. The problem was that he isn’t Bob Ladaceur. He quit this year.

[hattend]

It’s the Chicago Way.

[KC_Conspirator]

Stripped of the title today.

[KC_Conspirator]

We should have caught on when Taiwan’s players were driving the team bus to the games.