Posted on 12/16/2014 12:33:39 PM PST by YeahBuddy
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. http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20141216/morgan-park/jackie-robinson-west-broke-residency-rules-suburban-league-claims
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He plays to win.
so are the rules now for LLWS sort wink and nod now?
No
This will be investigated by LL Baseball.
This is a different animal than Team Miami or Danny Almonte.
If all of the kids on this team were from the Chicago area then this is no different than the standard applied to the International teams.
My first impression of the Evergreen Park “officials” is that they need to get a life.
As Tomkat posted a map earlier, there are five neighborhoods (out of 77) in Chicago that JRB could draw their players from.
One player was from the far west side of the city and one was from Bucktown on the north side of Chicago.
Several didn’t even live in Chicago, let alone the geographic boundaries specified by LLB.
One was from Lynwood,Il.
One from Dalton, Il.
Two from South Holland, Il.
One from Lansing, Il.
One from Calumet City, IL. (The coach’s son)
That’s 8 players THAT WE KNOW OF, that were illegally playing for the team.
Remember, to compete in the world series tournament you can’t be a travel team. You can play club/travel, but you must be made up of players from your little league association. In other words, an All Star collection from your league.
JRB has been around for a long time (1960’s?) They have always participated in this tournament. The Coach and the organization definitely know the rules.
These adults knew they were cheating and obviously provided false documents to do so. I blame them.
Other teams probably cheat, especially the foreign ones. But this is what makes Americans exceptional.
Just because everybody else jumps off a bridge doesn’t mean we should to.
We can’t keep making exceptions to the rules (Constitution anyone!) just because it makes you feel good.
All good points.
Will be following this closely.
Usually it involved just two guys, a hitter and a pitcher. If a ball got past the pitcher, it was a single. Against the school fence, a double or a triple. Over the fence, homer. No running involved.
The Philly...I mean “Taney” Dragons did pretty much the same thing. It’s an agenda to bring black...I mean city kids into baseball and they don’t care who they screw. It is a total farce that small towns across the nation have to compete with super teams. The Taney team got to pick from a pool of millions of kids from the entire city of Philadelphia while my home town (who nearly beat them) had to choose from a pool 50 kids. It is ridiculous.
When Little League has an agenda to push, I am sure they overlooked some birth certificates. The Philly team was the same story. An entire metropolitan city gets to play against little towns with 50 kids each across the state and region. Complete crap.
And the rural white kids have leagues of 40 or 50 players while these agenda-pushed bug cities choose from millions of kids. It is an outrage and it’s disgusting.
The Taney team got to choose from the entire city of Philadelphia. It’s ridiculous.
“Wasn’t there a Filipino pitcher a few years back of questionable maturity as well?”
When I was in the sixth grade I remember this little league star at our school. I could have sworn he had to shave.
I was President for several years of my town’s Youth Football program where I saw cheating of all types. Sad really that parents do such things.
Interesting; I guess the second and third columns were what raised the hackles of “black leaders”. As in everything else, they are being displaced by Hispanics...
Yep
The most interesting thing to me is the data on positions. The numbers of black pitchers vs black outfielders is pretty stark, for whatever reason. That is probably a skill oriented thing vs. and athletic ability oriented thing, as well as cultural circumstances.
Baseball hasn’t seen the dominance of blacks at the pro-level like NBA and NFL has, my theory is that the skill to play baseball at the highest level lend themselves to being more independent of pure size and athletic ability, not that such traits are an impediment by any means. Combine that with cultural factors and blacks playing baseball is much closer to the % of blacks in the general population than those other two pro-sports.
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