{"id":6112,"date":"2015-02-11T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:51:23","slug":"stripped-little-league-title-upsets-some-chicagoans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/stripped-little-league-title-upsets-some-chicagoans\/","title":{"rendered":"Little League title loss upsets some Chicagoans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Penman<\/p>\n<p>Chicago residents are disturbed after the Jackie Robinson West Little League team was stripped of its\u00a0U.S. title Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn adult did something wrong, \u00a0not the kids,\u201d said Ray Smith, 27, an audio-visual\u00a0technician and South Side resident. \u201cTo take it away from the kids is absolutely\u00a0wrong. They won it fair and square no matter what happens,\u201d he said in an interview in the Loop.<\/p>\n<p>The team was found guilty of violating player residency rules by the Little League\u00a0International tournament committee, which also suspended team manager Darold\u00a0Butler and placed the team on probation with all victories vacated and its\u00a0tournament privileges suspended. In addition, Illinois District IV administrator\u00a0Michael Kelly was removed from his position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey won regardless of where they came from,\u201d said Kristine Wuertz, 24, a digital marketing associate from the North Side. \u201cAnd they did it in a team fashion.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Jackie Robinson West Stripped of National Title\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/119398812?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>ABOVE: Reporter Abigail Hodgson reports from Morgan Park about the Jackie Robinson West Little League controversy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Rahm Emanuel released a statement saying the city remains proud of the\u00a0Jackie Robinson West players, who were ages 11 to 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose remarkable boys brought our entire city together and reminded all\u00a0Chicagoans how important it is to support our children,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThe\u00a0city remains united in its support of these great children and in our hearts, they will\u00a0always be champions in Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other politicians weighed in, including Ald. Carrie M. Austin, 34th, who told the Chicago Tribune that the Little Leaguers \u201care still champions and I believe people across the city will feel just like I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Robinson West\u2019s victories captivated the city last year, and the ticket-tape parade through downtown Chicago and rally in Millennium Park brought\u00a0throngs of celebrants. It was the first time since 1983 that an all-black team made it all the way to the Little League Baseball World Series. That team in \u201883 was also the Jackie Robinson West team.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s team won the Great Lakes Regional and defeated Las Vegas in the U.S. final, before losing to a team from Seoul, South Korea in the final of the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference called by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Michael Pleger, pitcher\u00a0Brandon Green said he and his teammates were not involved in any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230; We do know that we\u2019re champions, our parents know that we\u2019re champions, and the team\u2019s parents know that we\u2019re champions, and Chicago knows we\u2019re champions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His mother Venisa, along with Jackson and Pleger, raised implications of racism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s] amazing to me that whenever African-Americans exceed the expectations, that there is always going to be fault that is found in what it is that we do. Little League says that they teach character and they teach courage. Well, this isn\u2019t an act of courage and this sure isn\u2019t an act of character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Jackie Robinson West parent: \u2018I&#39;m upset and disappointed \u2026 he feels like he did something wrong and he didn\u2019t\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Pnbalo9sma\">http:\/\/t.co\/Pnbalo9sma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicagotribune\/status\/565516900198023171\">February 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chicagoans said they are disappointed and upset by the fact that kids who\u00a0worked so hard are getting punished for mistakes made by egotistical adults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were unwitting accomplices in the actions of some adults who should have\u00a0known better,\u201d Ida Crown Jewish Academy baseball coach and former youth baseball coach Raymond Asher, 54, of Skokie said. \u201cThe underlying premise for those types of actions are typically ego.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asher also expressed concern for the kids from the Las Vegas team, which\u00a0has been given the championship following the controversy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very sad for the kids in Las Vegas who deserved to win,\u201d Asher said. \u201cThe Vegas\u00a0team didn&#8217;t win the way they should have, they didn\u2019t get to enjoy their victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents also made comparisons between the Little League scandal and the general\u00a0culture of cheating in sports, specifically the \u201cDeflategate\u201d drama following the AFC\u00a0Championship game three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s all right [they got stripped],\u201d said carpenter Dominic Valenta, 22, an\u00a0Indiana resident. \u201cThey cheated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The revoking of the championship comes just over two weeks after Robert Manfred was sworn in as the new commissioner of Major League Baseball. In his first letter to fans, Manfred said that one of his biggest areas of focus is making the game more\u00a0appealing to young kids in underprivileged areas.<\/p>\n<p>Asher said baseball should not be any less appealing now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the scandal will have any impact on whether or not kids will want to play baseball,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Little League International CEO Stephen D. Keener said in a statement that Wednesday\u2019s decision was \u201cunfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What these players accomplished on the field and the memories and lessons they have learned during the Little League World Series tournament is something the kids can be proud of, but it is unfortunate that the actions of adults have led to this outcome,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Some innocent kids are being stripped of their LLWS title because adults are awful. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/LGmC2lVaOf\">http:\/\/t.co\/LGmC2lVaOf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dus9a1CpUn\">pic.twitter.com\/dus9a1CpUn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UPROXX Sports (@UPROXXSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UPROXXSports\/status\/565521058170953728\">February 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"featurecaption\">Jackie Robinson Park, where Little Leaguers whose title was stripped practiced. 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