I was wondering the same. Germ on the baseball field, then all those kids were exposed and brought it home to their families on their clothes.
Prayers for the little boy.
This almost sounds like a virus, rather than bacteria. Aren't bacteria susceptible to antibiotics, and viruses aren't?
I've heard about people being bit by brown recluse spiders, and having this same type of necrosis eat part of their hand away.
I'm going to have to do some reasearch, so I can understand what this is about.
Here's a bunch of links on it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=necrotizing+faciitis&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape:en-US