Chicago Mayor Wants Little League To Reverse Jackie Robinson West Decision

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel attempted privately to remonstrate a boss and CEO of Little League International to revoke a preference to frame a Jackie Robinson West group of a inhabitant championship.

Little League International reliable that a mayor done a call Wednesday afternoon to Stephen D. Keener, as initial reported in a Chicago Sun-Times. The classification did not fact what Emanuel pronounced though a mayor’s bureau pronounced he told Keener that a preference announced progressing in a day has incited a immature players into “perpetrators when they are victims.”

The mayor’s bureau says Emanuel suggested choice punishments to Keener, such as ominous a group from personification for a certain volume of time. But Little League International says Keener sensitive a mayor that a organization’s preference was final.

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