NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player -- too good, it turns out. The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said. Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho's team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $50 sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it. They say Jericho's coach, Wilfred Vidro, has resigned. But Vidro says he didn't quit and the team refuses to disband. Players and parents held a protest at the league's field on Saturday urging the league to let Jericho pitch. "He's never hurt any one," Vidro said. "He's on target all the time. How can you punish a kid for being too good?" Jericho's coach and parents say the boy is being unfairly targeted because he turned down an invitation to join the defending league champion, which is sponsored by an employer of one of the league's administrator Jericho instead joined a team sponsored by Will Power Fitness. The team was 8-0 and on its way to the playoffs when Jericho was banned from pitching. League attorney Peter Noble says the only factor in banning Jericho from the mound is his pitches are just too fast. "He is a very skilled player, a very hard thrower," Noble said. "There are a lot of beginners. This is not a high-powered league. This is a developmental league whose main purpose is to promote the sport." Noble acknowledged that Jericho had not beaned any batters in the co-ed league of 8- to 10-year-olds, but say parents expressed safety concerns. "Facing that kind of speed" is frightening for beginning players, Noble said.

I say this without a shred of sarcasm.  This is probably the lowest moment in the history of the United States right behind slavery.  I mean a kid gets barred from playing baseball because he’s too fucking good?   Do you think this shit would happen in Cuba?  Fuck no!  Listen it would be one thing if this kid was going around beaning everybody in the head or there were whispers that he was 14 or something.   But it sounds like everybody is in agreement including the “league attorney” that Jericho is just a phenom.  So how can you punish him?   If anything he should be getting treated like a god and fucking chicks everywhere.   I just hope and pray the real reason that "Will Power Fitness" was disbanded was because the league administrator is on the take.  I can live with corruption and blackmail in Little Leage baseball, but I can’t accept telling a kid he can’t pitch because little Timmy and little Jimmy shit their pants when he brings the 40 mph gas.