Payton, Brooks and 'down there' A forfeited high school baseball game has Chicago talking. Good. April 30, 2013 http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-30/opinion/ct-edit-payton-0430-jm-20130430_1_far-south-side-william-wittleder-high-school-sports-teams .......... Wittleder said he couldn't field a full team and would have to forfeit. Some players' parents, Wittleder later told the Sun-Times, didn't want their sons to play "down there." The response to the story was about what you'd expect. Some denounced the Payton parents as racist. Others defended them for trying to keep their kids out of harm's way. Some said they would have had second thoughts about letting their own kids play on the South Side, having seen the...