Police had to be called in to break up the ruckus. A coach in another Florida case was charged with aggravated battery after he broke an umpire's jaw. We now have situations where somebody got killed with parents killing other parents in children's sports. We've never had that before. Youth sports leaders, like Fred Engh of the Florida-based National Alliance for Youth Sports, are stunned at what's happening.
Parental misbehavior is nothing new.
I played baseball as a boy and quit Little League at the age of 13 as a silent protest against hollering grown-ups. But experts say, today things around the fields are much worse. We are much more competitive. People are fighting much more for getting all they can. We are not here to have fun, we're here to win.