Posted on 02/12/2015 7:41:49 PM PST by doug from upland
Disgraced Jackie Robinson West Little League Team Hires Lawyer
A day after getting stripped of their national crown, officials from Chicago's Jackie Robinson West Little League team appeared Thursday with a newly hired lawyer who pledged to review Little League International's investigation to make sure it was done fairly.
"I want to make sure that whatever rules and regulations applied to Jackie Robinson West were applied to every other team," the lawyer, Victor Henderson, said at a news conference.
Henderson said he's also told the players, and team officials, that they should not give up their claim to the title just yet.
"They're still the champions unless we we found out it was a fair process," he said.
But that is really just a symbolic gesture: Little League International, which holds the Little League World Series and awarded the title, has already vacated all of the team's tournament wins and handed the championship to the runner-up, Mountain Ridge Little League of Las Vegas.
Jackie Robinson West, the first all-black team to win the national title, came under scrutiny not long after the tournament, when they returned to the South Side of Chicago as heroes and were later feted at the White House. An official from a district in the neighboring suburbs complained that Jackie Robinson West had reached into other districts for players.
Last month, Little League International found evidence that Jackie Robinson West's had expanded its boundaries to include territory that belonged to other districts, and falsified a boundary map submitted for the 2014 tournament. On Wednesday, the national organization invalidated Jackie Robinson West's wins, suspended their manager and removed their district administrator.
Some parents and community leaders said the decision was racially motivated. The suburban whistleblower said he'd received death threats. Henderson said the league was not charging racism, and urged the threats to stop.
But Henderson complained that the league learned of the disqualification from the media, and has yet to receive a formal written explanation. He said he is not contemplating filing a lawsuit — yet.
"We don't know enough information yet to know why the league made its decision," he said.
There so much corruption in Chicago, cook county and IL. It’s the culture there. It spills over into everything. Even Little League baseball. Cheating is so commonplace they don’t even know their cheating.
Had they not cheated in 1960, John Kennedy might have lived into his 90’s.
Why are they black? What a disgrace in the NAME of Jackie Robinson? He didn’t cheat!! These kids absolutely knew what they were doing!! tHEY ARE RUINED. ThE COACHES SHOULD GO TO jail FOR FRAUD!!
They should be renamed the Al Sharpton/ Jesse Jackson/ Barry Obama Cheating Little League...
It sems to me that over the years there have been accusations of overage players and players who were not qualified because of bieng assiciated with other teams somehow??????
LOL
When I read the lawyers tactic (Were the rules applied fairly to all teams?) I thought, “race card?”
Am I right?
yes, it is racist when you'll do anything to make yourself or your race seem better then others....
Had they not cheated in 1960, John Kennedy might have lived into his 90’s+
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JFK would have won the election without Illinois’ electoral votes:
Kennedy 303, Nixon 219, Harry F. Byrd 15.
Kennedy still wins even if you take his 27 Illinois electoral votes and give them to Nixon.
Huh?????
Their team cheated and deserved to have the title taken away.
That said, I have absolutely no problem with them investigating other teams.
I think the cheating was about the North Carolina primary, which was close and he needed to win the primary in order to be a candidate.
What's it to you? Your team is a bunch of crooks. If somebody else put a toe over the line, it doesn't change that you're crooks on an industrial scale.
The kids knew they lived in the wrong district, they cheated like soetoro, by any means necessary.
It also seems a disgrace to have a fully non-integrated team named after a man who symbolized integration.
Is this the same Black lawyer that has a billboard with his picture and the words:
“Just because you did it, doesn’t mean your guilty” on it?
bttt
That’s hilarious.
You are correct. They were possible claims of fraud in both Illinois and Texas. So Illinois could not have done it by itself. Total electoral votes in both states was 51.
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