One of the feel good stories of this past summer has a bad
ending. The Chicago-based Jackie
Robinson West little league team was stripped of their little league world
series, for pushing the boundaries. I
heard lots of grumbling that it’s too bad for the kids, that it doesn’t seem
fair, blah, blah, blah. What the team
did was recruit kids from different neighborhoods, neighborhoods that were
outside the boundaries set up to make the teams fair. Much of the grumbling I have heard is that it
was a great thing for these kids to win, why take it away, it wasn’t their
fault. Really, what about the other
great teams that played by the rules that didn’t make it, how fair was it to
them? If this would have been something
that would have been let go and allowed to go on without being what would that
have showed these young athletes, they may be sad and mad now that the title
got stripped from them, but the right thing was done.
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