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We had a game here (not mine, but some of my players from my HS football team) in the Atlanta area last summer that got the police (and local TV stations) involved.
16U travel ball tournament. Team from Alabama with a "reputation for fighting" playing the home team. Words, threats, HBP all day long, umps not doing enough to stop it. Late in the game, ALA R2, pickoff play at 2B, GA F4 tags the runner (returning head first) around the head, bloody nose. Coach from ALA team charges F4. All hell breaks loose. Fathers come from the stands onto the field to fight. Ump gets attacked as well (maybe THAT was something the teams could agree on!). Police come, many people arrested, taken to jail. Some of the ALA parents can't get bail arranged, and spend the night in jail.
The next day, teams are scheduled to play again. TV trucks there to cover the "game". Police on hand as well. Much screaming and hollering, one of the ALA parents that was arrested the night before gets arrested AGAIN.
We also had two women get into a physical fight at a softball game, one was a coach, one a fan. Coach disputes call by ump, fan tells her to keep her fat #@##$%^# shut, coach responds in kind, fan comes on the field and the two start a fight, hair pulling, punches, the whole nine yards.
And then we had the coach that was arrested for intentionally tripping a player on the opposing team (17 year old kids in summer ball). Kid had made a great catch against his team to end the inning, and as he was heading toward his dugout, the opposing coach tripped him. League banned him and had him arrested.
Thankfully, none of these games were mine, nor was I there for any of them. In one case, I knew some of the players involved, but otherwise, these were cases in the local paper.
Ain't youth baseball fun?
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