JACKIE ROBINSON WEST STRIPPED OF LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES TITLE

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Jackie Robinson West has been stripped of their title in the 2014 Little League World Series. By default, Las Vegas will now be handed the title.

The Jackie Robinson West baseball team that brought the city together this summer is accused of stacking the team with players from the suburbs.

JRW MEETS FOR FIRST TIME AFTER TITLE STRIPPED

Jackie Robinson West parents and players met Wednesday night for the first since Little League World Series revoked their national title.

"I don't feel right that they took our title away from us, something that we played hard for. And we love the game of baseball," said Jaheim Benton, a JRW player.

"The whole thing's sad, but what's really sad is just to see a man from one of the leagues that we played, just to like, come after us," said Marquis Jackson, a JRW player.

Despite the ruling, parents and the coach said their focus is supporting the boys accomplishments - title or not.

"The boys did what they're supposed to do, everybody did what they're supposed to do. So like I said, I'm still a proud guy, a proud coach," said Darold Butler, head coach.

"I think I'm ready to go back to school tomorrow and keep my head up," said Brandon Green, a JRW player.

Coach Butler did not address any of the allegations specifically, however, he is the only person from the league who has spoken since the decision was made. Bill Haley, the league's director, was not at this meeting.

http://abc7chicago.com/sports/jackie-robinson-west-stripped-of-little-league-world-series-title/512899/

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CHEATERS NEVER WIN, WINNERS NEVER CHEAT, UNLESS YOU'RE THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS

Patriots! phfft. Tuck rule my aching ass. It couldn't have happened if the League didn't have it out for the Raiders.

Baseball, proper name--------Rounders, played in England by children for over 100 yrs!!

Interesting Nicko and agree it is the proper name as this will further add to your good point:

History

The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times,^[1] with the earliest reference being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called "base-ball by John Newbery. In 1828, William Clarke in London published the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, which included the rules of rounders and which contained the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond The following year, the book was published in Boston, Massachusetts. ^The first nationally formalised rules were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland in 1884. The game is still regulated by the GAA in Ireland. In the United Kingdom it is regulated by Rounders England, which was formed in 1943. While the two associations are distinct, they share similar elements of game play and culture. Competitions are held between teams from both traditions, with games alternating between codes and one version being played in the morning and the other in the afternoon.
After the rules of rounders were formalised in Ireland, associations were established in Liverpool and Scotland in 1889. Both the 'New York game' and the now-defunct 'Massachusetts game' versions of baseball, as well as softball, share the same historical roots as rounders and bear a resemblance to the GAA version of the game. Rounders is linked to British baseball, which is still played in Liverpool, Cardiff and Newport. Although rounders is assumed to be older than baseball, literary references to early forms of 'base-ball' in England pre-date use of the term rounders. The game is now played up to international level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounders

Yes, I've heard that too.

baseball is linked back to early civilization

you mean rounders is linked back

nicko wrote:you mean rounders is linked back

If rounders has only been played 100 years in the UK it's considerable younger than baseball, whose U.S. pro league has been around nearly 150 years (about the same age as the FA).

GROOMSY, did you not read Brasidas post earlier,? I should have said "hundreds" of years.

then wouldnt it be took after that game and not rounders? which rounders is taken from that

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