hillarysfatass • 10 minutes ago
As did many of you, I played Little League. We knew the kids against whom we competed. They were our friends and went to our school as well as nearby schools. My last year of Little League, I made the All-Star team. It would have been horrible for kids, who deserved to be on the team, to lose their spot because ringers were brought in. There is no way these kids did not know what was going on. They just wanted to win and it didn’t matter that everyone involved joined in the cheating. They do not deserve to be associated with the name Jackie Robinson.
There was a news report that mentioned some of the players on the other teams told their coaches and parents that they had never seen some of the “new” players at any other games prior to the championships.
That report has since been buried by the media.
Via NY Post
The man who blew the whistle on the Jackie Robinson West Little League team claims he’s been receiving death threats for spoiling the youngsters’ glory.
The team from Chicago’s South Side was stripped of its US Little League Championship on Wednesday for using suburban players from outside its geographic boundaries.
Chris Janes — the vice president of the Evergreen Park Athletic Association and coach of a team that lost 43-2 to Jackie Robinson in four innings — had emailed Little League International in October to alert officials that he and others thought the all-star squad had been “manipulating, bending and blatantly breaking the rules for the sole purpose of winning at all costs.”[…]
Belisle told local news outlets he feels for the Chicago kids and is sickened by the actions of the adults who orchestrated the scheme.
“When you start putting a team together for that reason and that reason only, you lose sight of what you’re playing here. You’re playing Little League baseball,” he told WJAR-TV.