Kass: Tragic Little League Tale Adds To Corrupt Chicago Image
From the Chicago Tribune
When the news broke that Chicago's great baseball team — Jackie Robinson West — had been stripped of its national Little League title, the inevitable happened.
America asked: Is there nothing in Chicago — birthplace of the Chicago Way — that isn't corrupt?
The mayor of Chicago weighed in and the president from Chicago too, as did other politicians. Because the team was African-American, certain reverends played the race card. Supporters of the Little League's decision played the rules card.
And there was so much anger that it didn't feel like baseball.
It felt like an election.
At the Jackie Robinson West home field on the Far South Side, in the Washington Heights neighborhood, about 2 feet of snow covered the baseball field.
Marcus Evans, 35, a neighborhood man who said he played for Jackie Robinson West years ago, was grieving.
Read more in our daily News Update...
From the Chicago Tribune
When the news broke that Chicago's great baseball team — Jackie Robinson West — had been stripped of its national Little League title, the inevitable happened.
America asked: Is there nothing in Chicago — birthplace of the Chicago Way — that isn't corrupt?
The mayor of Chicago weighed in and the president from Chicago too, as did other politicians. Because the team was African-American, certain reverends played the race card. Supporters of the Little League's decision played the rules card.
And there was so much anger that it didn't feel like baseball.
It felt like an election.
At the Jackie Robinson West home field on the Far South Side, in the Washington Heights neighborhood, about 2 feet of snow covered the baseball field.
Marcus Evans, 35, a neighborhood man who said he played for Jackie Robinson West years ago, was grieving.
Read more in our daily News Update...