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I'm not sure why I'm so taken by this Craigslist posting, sent in by a pair of readers, seeking a very specific sort of ballplayer for a Wake County (N.C.) 9U travel team. Maybe it's because all the nine-year-olds we remember from little league swung as hard as they could on every pitch, and because everything hit to the outfield got past the fielders for a triple anyway, and because only the fat kids were put at catcher. More »
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What's sadder than being a mascot for a little league team? Not much, actually. But the "Beast From The East" just started 10 years in prison for stealing more than 200 grand from the league. More »
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Do you remember Jason Chighizola, who sucker punched the coach of his little league rival Red Sox? Turns out he had nearly 15 times the amount of testosterone necessary to be considered legally doping. More »
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This 13-year-old's father, who just happens to be an attorney, is suing a little league coach for telling the pitcher to throw at his son. More importantly, the kid is wearing a shirt that appears to say "HARD-ON." [News-Herald] More »
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A 12-year-old boy thought it would be cool to break out the pop-up slide — and tore up his knee in the process. This being America, of course his family sued. So how much money did they get? More »
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Come on, who hasn't had a Little League coach who's been caught with over a kilo of cocaine and an unregistered weapon? It's part of growing up. At least in Alabama. More »
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So, the next few days will be chock full of end-of-year retrospectives. We'll do our own as well. Today: Parents gone wild. More »
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Nothing gets a suburban small town more in a tizzy than when a "noted sex offender" moves into the neighborhood. All the rehabilitation and prison time in the world can never convince overly- protective parents this monster will ever be available for car-pool or babysitting duties. Granted, regardless of some town's overly paranoid, Little Children-like reactions to sex offenders setting up residence in their town post-prison time, the people of Torrington Connecticut may have a right to be puzzled by their town's " Board of Approved Baseball Umpires" handing convicted sex offender Tom Barbero its lifetime achievement award for his 28 years of service to youth baseball. More »
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At least we know how important getting the call right is to 11- year-old ballers. Little League is able to make this decision because ESPN is televising all 32 games. The cameras will only be used, per the AP, for "questionable home runs and other close plays at the outfield fence." Why would Little League make this decision? More »
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Great, so now every single kid in Beachwood between the ages of 9-12 thinks they're going to play in the Major Leagues instead of the twenty-five kids who make the All-Star Game. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022642&view=rss&microfeed=true I used to wonder about the Washington State Little League motto: "Revenge is a dish best served cold." Nothing about honesty and fair play? But now it makes perfect sense. And I used to think that the post-game handshake line wasn't worth recording ... More »
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A seven-year-old Boston area Little Leaguer was benched for two games recently when his mother didn't show up for her scheduled shift at the league snack bar. The Freetown Youth Athletic Association levied the penalty on the child due to his scofflaw mother, who claims that — get this — she had to work that day to feed her family. More »
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CNN's venerable talk show host Larry King may not have any trouble conversing with some of the world's most famous people or constructing a brilliant turn-of-phrase, but he does have some trouble controlling himself when umpires start ruining his young son's Little League games. More »
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There are so many ways to express your displeasure with an umpire. You can boo; some do this quite effectively. You can send him angry letters. You can say nasty things about him on a message board. Or you can throw pizza at him. More »
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First of all, this is not a hockey post. This Wade Campbell is a Little League dad, who, concerned that his son wasn't getting enough playing time, had a cheerful discussion with his coach. Yes, the term "shot down like a dog" was used, but only in the most constructive of ways. More »
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A sun-splashed Saturday afternoon, on a Little League Field somewhere in America: More »
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Note to Cincinnati Little Leaguers: You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you. As we mentioned briefly last week, a new rule there for the upcoming season forbids any type of "negative chatter" during youth baseball games. To illustrate, we've made this chart. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=249476&view=rss&microfeed=true We take you home today with outstanding home video of a Pee Wee football league parents fight in Corpus Christi, Tex. It has been reported on already, but this is the first time we've seen a video of it. More »
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We've had some rather thorough discussions of tasering and its effectivness and proper dispersal. But we never thought we'd see it come up at a youth football game. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=205744&view=rss&microfeed=true Nothing funnier than when a kid says "fuck" on national television. Last night, in the Little League World Series, a player — for Staten Island ... of course — implored his teammates to score "one fucking run." His teammates immediately shush him, not because he cursed, but because he forgot that ESPN has the fucking mikes on. More »
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Remember Danny Almonte, the dominant Little League World Series star from The Bronx from a few years who turned out to be two years older than the maximum age? Well — at this should make anyone who remembers the Almonte business feel extremely old — he just got married ... and she's 11 years older than he is. More »
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We know the weekly feature in which we rip various sportswriters is on hiatus, but we can't let the earth complete one more revolution on its axis without commenting on our friend Jay Mohr, online journalism's answer to Paris Hilton. Call it Why Your Internet Columnist Sucks, and bear with us, please, while we vent. More »
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