Guest Sports News Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 [attach=full]17493[/attach]By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Little League team stripped of its national title for fielding ineligible players said on Thursday it will not voluntarily surrender its championship until it conducts its own investigation into whether it was treated fairly. "The story's not over yet," Victor Henderson, an attorney for the team, told a packed news conference a day after the city was stunned by the news that last year's feel-good story had unraveled. "We want the same rules to apply, just be fair, everybody should play by the same rules, and the rules should be applied in a fair, even-handed consistent way," Henderson said, flanked by the team's manager and parents of the players. Chicago exploded in euphoria in August when Jackie Robinson West became the first all-black contingent to win the U.S. Little League Baseball championship for 11- and 12-year-olds, becoming a rare good-news story from the city's downtrodden South Side. Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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