Little League Settles Lawsuit Arising From Bad Slide For $125,000.00
JackWESQ
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1. Little league baseball game;
2. 12 year old child slides into second base;
3. Child tears up right knee;
4. Child's mother sues Little League Baseball Incorporated and the New Springville Little League;
5. League settles with child/child's mother for $125,000.00.
Only in America.
Story.
/s/ JackWESQ
2. 12 year old child slides into second base;
3. Child tears up right knee;
4. Child's mother sues Little League Baseball Incorporated and the New Springville Little League;
5. League settles with child/child's mother for $125,000.00.
Only in America.
Story.
/s/ JackWESQ
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on to McDonalds for some coffee....
Can you imagine now, every kid getting injured, their parents suing the league or school - organized sports would basically cease to exist...I mean you could injure a knee playing tennis or just running track...nothing could be offered...possibly no more gym class.
Let me tell you that essentially the ONLY reason that we are affiliated with Williamsport is the insurance that we receive through them. I believe we sent them approximately 2400.00 for this past season.
Aside from the insurance "LL the entity in Williamsport" in my opinion offers nothing for the kids. They want money for everything and every time you turn around. I could be wrong but I'm under the impression that it has ballooned into nothing but a large bureaucracy and is no longer about the kids when you come right down to it. (sort of like the Boy Scouts)
Hell we had to pay Williamsport 200.00 apparently just for the privilege of having our 2 teams to enter into allstar games in our district here in Ohio. On top of that I had to order and pay for the appropriate patches to place on their unis and we even got stuck paying for umpires for the games.
go on a shopping spree? If someone gave me a 125,000 today I would have it spent by Friday 5:00
ON ITS WAY TO NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658
However, it cost $100 this past season to enter. The $100 is strictly an administration fee and does not pay for uniforms or field maintenance. We have a nice park with 8 fields that were built by Hal Sutton (former PGA pro). The fields stay in horrible shape until the coaches and parents go out and repair the fields on our own time and dime. The LL does nothing to repair the fields.
Then we had to pay another $100 for the All Star tournament. Then another $100 for the AS uniforms. Again, we had to maintain the fields with absolutely no help from the LL association. Plus, all the games were played during the middle of the day in 100+ degree heat because the LL association wouldn't let us use the field at night because of the electricity bill for running the lights at night.
Guess our fees will go up next year for added insurance costs.
and that DOES include your shirt/cap/sox
It would seem we need to raise ours a tad.........
<< <i>we charge 35.00 for kids. 50.00 max per family.
and that DOES include your shirt/cap/sox
It would seem we need to raise ours a tad......... >>
i think you should leave it low ours around here is high as well and people always complain about it. i think they should do fundraisers or what ever they have to to let the kids play.
let them play!!!
just my .02
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we ask them to take part in a fundraiser. many are lazy and don't.
<< <i>afterwards the mom and her kid went to pizza hut when young Johnny took a pile of hot cheese to the bottom lip....bam another lawsuit.
on to McDonalds for some coffee.... >>
The coffee lawsuit was legit. She deserved to win.
Tabe