<p>I’m torn on this one. Our friends across the street went through this with their prodigiously gifted ball player son (now a 6th round draft pick, out of h.s., by the Pittsburgh Pirates). Parent jealously is a pretty terrible thing and our friends have been put through the ringer over the years. I get a bit of this in this story as well…especially since it seems the league was, allegedly, perfectly willing for this boy to play, if he switched to a team sponsored by the relative of a league administrator. </p>
<p>However, I still have a fresh mental picture of a 9 year old, who was hit by a ball at the game held in a field adjacent to my son’s drumline practice last night, as he was carted away in an ambulance.</p>
<p>Hard call.</p>