from TheCorner: Jericho Scott has a wicked and accurate arm for a 9-year-old, and the unhittable lad has now become the scourge of kids’ baseball in New Haven, CT: he’s so good the league has prohibited him from pitching and sought to disband his 8-and-oh team.
blurbat: This would be a great article for some jounalist. A microcosm of American Society. Interview the parents and league officials involved. Who thinks he should be allowed to pitch? Who thinks he should be prohibited from pitching? My guess is that it would divide out along red and blue lines. Let's grant the prohibitionists a point, that it's a bummer that no one can hit the ball. Are there other potential solutions: The boy be allowed to pitch half the game. Or he pitch the whole game...against both teams.
Or could the league consider that this would be be a good lesson about talent; about peraonal excellence and what it takes. What about opposing teams taking their game up a notch with extra practice; or changing your goals from winning to getting a hit or one point?
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