Glendora Little League Baseball

Glendora Little League parking, littering, and noise in residential neighborhoods a serious problem

Coach Paid Player to Assault Teammate

Sports Parks and Neighborhood Relations !
See also Glendora Pony Colt at Henderson Field

Some of what the neighbors contend with nightly and weekends during the season
How a sports park can impact a residential neighborhood!   Hear it  See it 

• Every street in the neighborhood filled with parked cars
• Noise from the ball fields that were built within 50 feet of residents property lines without permits.
• Cars parked across drives.
• The sound of car alarms as parents send their children to the car on an errand.
• To compound the issue further, each little leaguers parents bring two cars to the game.
• Traffic congestion as cars from one game leave and another is about to start.
• The list goes on...
  
  Please consider using the parking lots rather then the streets

Little League participation has dropped 216,840 in the past ten years; 1994-2003. With 64,500 of the total in the past two years.  Source: Official Little League Media Guide 2004

Dunbar, PA -- T-Ball Coach Paid Player to Assault Teammate. T-ball coach paid one of his players $25 to hurt an 8-year-old teammate. so he wouldn't have to put the boy in the game. Police said the boy was hit in the head and in the groin with a baseball just before a game, and didn't play.

T-Ball League officials investigated the accusations, found nothing wrong and took no action. The injured players mother asked the state police to investigate. Witnesses told police the coach didn't want the boy to play in the game. The coach was arrested and arraigned on charges of criminal solicitation to commit aggravated assault, corruption of minors, criminal conspiracy to commit simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. The alleged assault took place within 200 miles of Little National Headquarters in Williamsport, PA. July 15, 2005

See Also Glendora Pony Colt

Violence In Youth Sports

Noise is Pollution "Excessive noise affects us all. It creates a heightened level of anxiety, distress, and an unfriendly environment throughout our neighborhoods".

District 20 Administrator & Information Officer Little League Baseball