Little League World Series champions, Jackie Robinson West has been stripped of their title in the 2014 Little League World Series over cheating..
Runner ups, Las Vegas will now be awarded the title.
The Jackie Robinson West baseball team that brought the city together this summer is accused of stacking the team with players from the suburbs. “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. h/t abc7chicago
Little League International found that Jackie Robinson West Little League used a falsified boundary map for their 2014 tournament.
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