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  Here’s my story - My Husband and I are Huge White Sox Fans (we eat, sleep, and breathe White Sox) Of course we have passed that along to are children (Daniel - age 6.5, Dylan - age 5, and Brianna - age 3) This spring, my 2 sons’ Daniel and Dylan, are in T-ball. Just are luck they are on the Cubs. It’s not Little League Cubs, it’s Chicago Cubs (same trademark as the Chicago Cubs) When my boys found out they were on the Cubs, they were very upset. I tried to get them moved to a different team a month before the season even started, of course I was unable to. Practice started, it wasn’t bad, I thought the coach was nice, the boys were doing well. Then, we got the uniforms. I could see the confusion in Dylan’s face and the disgust in Daniel’s. We got to the car and Daniel asks me "Do we have to wear these?" I tried to explain that it was just T-ball and not the real Cubs, but they weren’t buying it.

Their first game was just this past Saturday, the day before I reminded them they had a game, at first they were excited, but then, my oldest, Daniel said to me again "Do we have to wear these?" Of course, I say "yes, they’re your uniforms and your team will be wearing them." Daniel says, "But Mom they’re the Cubs, we can’t wear the Cubs." My initial thought was - that’s silly, but then it hit me. They are just doing what they have been taught. We are White Sox Fans, and we do not like the Cubs. It is like brushing your teeth before bed or eating all your vegetables. Then after thinking about it, I asked them, "Do you want to wear the uniform," and they both said No. I couldn’t blame them. I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing anything Cubs. So that night I went out and bought the same color ‘Cubbie blue’ shirts and T-shirt transfers and made them the same shirts without the Cubs trademark. The next morning we got ready to go to the game, and I forgot about the hat. They got an idea to put a sticker over the ‘C’ on the hat. They had some dinosaur stickers left over from a book. Off to the game we go. (BTW my Husband had to work, so it was just the boys, Brianna and I) We get to the game and the coach asks them where their uniforms were as he tears the stickers off their hats. I explained to him that they did not want to wear the Cubs trademark. He told them they had to wear it next time or they could not play. After the game the coach announced the next game and blah, blah, blah. Before we went, he went up to the boys again and said if you don’t wear you uniforms you will be benched. At this point I am livid, I paid $250 for my boys to play T-ball and just because they don’t want to wear the Cubs trademark they can’t play. I completely understand that it is a team uniform but frankly, you could not tell the difference, nobody even noticed it. It’s T-ball, I am paying them, they are not paying us. We left the game, and the whole time I just kept thinking ‘Am I being crazy, should I just make them wear the stupid uniform?’ After talking to my husband, we both agreed that we will not make them wear the Cubs trademark that they should stand up for what they believe in and what they were taught from day one.

So later that evening I get a call from the VP of the Little League, (I cannot believe that the coach called crying to the Vice President of the Little League about the boys not wearing the Cubs trademark, what a baby!) He explained that the boys will have to wear their uniform or they will be benched, he said that they could lose their LL license if they don’t wear their uniform. I asked him if we could have our $250 back and of course he said ‘no’. I told him I wanted to talk to someone higher up, so he had the President of the LL call me and he told me how he grew up 10 minutes from Comiskey Park and his boys were on the Cubs LL and blah, blah, blah. Basically, the same story, if my 5 and 6.5-year-old do not wear the Cubs trademark then they will be benched. At this point my six-year-old does not want to go back, he said the coach embarrassed him in front of his friends by yelling at him. But, I told both Daniel and Dylan that we are going to every game and they can wear either shirt (the Cubs trademark, or the one w/out it) and if they are benched because of it, then so be it. They will stand up for what they believe in.

Please White Sox Fans help us out its discrimination, help our boys play t-ball w/out having to wear the Cubs trademark!!

If you want to help e-mail

President of Little League Casey Jones - ljones188@comcast.net

 VP - Mike Parker - majjparker@att.net