[Dakota]

Several things:

Contract law does not exempt private businesses or organizations. I have no idea if there was an agreement that would constitute a contract, but if so, the league may be cooked. For example, ASA is a private business; they have player eligibility rules. If those are followed, they cannot just decide to ban a player because he/she is "too good" for the age division.

The league is not operating in good faith. The manager of the second place team (who is also a league official) knew how good the kid was and tried to recruit him. Now that he is on another team and winning the league championship, he is "too good"? Sure, right. You bet. All kinds of things wrong with this. How can a rec league have player recruitment? How can the same person both want the player on his team, but claim he is too good for the league if he is on another team? How can a league official use his power to disqualify the opponent's star player so his team will be champion?