Team Stripped of Little League Title

The Jackie Robinson West of Chicago team has been stripped of its 2014 U.S. Little League championship, which has instead been awarded to a squad from Las Vegas. “After an extensive review of the operations of Jackie Robinson West Little League and Illinois District 4, the Little League International Charter/Tournament Committee has determined that the Jackie Robinson West Little League and Illinois District 4 Administrator knowingly violated Little League International Rules and Regulations by placing players on their team who did not qualify to play because they lived outside the team’s boundaries,” a Little League news release says. Apparently the team used a fake boundary map when it met with league officials, and stacked the team with players from the suburbs. Jackie Robinson West lost to a South Korean team in the championship game.