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Litttle League Champs Stripped of Title
Hello and welcome to Giselle's Nightly News. Tonight we're the outcome of when boundaries are crossed, and games are played.
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Jackie Robinson West of Chicago will vacate its wins from the 2014 Little League World Series for using ineligible players, Little League Baseball announced Wednesday morning and initially reported by ESPN.
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"As our Little League operations staff learned of the many issues and actions that occurred over the course of 2014 and prior, as painful as this is, we feel it a necessary decision to maintain the integrity of the Little League program. No team can be allowed to attempt to strengthen its team by putting players on their roster that live outside their boundaries."
Little League International determined that Jackie Robinson West used a falsified boundary map for their 2014 tournament, and that JRW officials met with other leagues in Illinois District 4 to try to get the territory they wrongfully claimed was theirs for their 2014 tournament.
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http://www.cbssports.com/general/eye...igible-players
Basically, this team won the championship and became the first all-black little league team to ever do that. Apparently, a few players didn't live in the exact boundaries eligible for the team and as a result, the Little League stripped them of their championship.
I personally think they should have just punshied the adults/team officials, rather than stripping children of their title. As some point, we have to ask. When do we start ignoring 'protocol' and start going by morals? Good night.
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