Well I obviously missed part of the story. I didn't get the part where he came into the league part way through the season, no I would not have supported that move. I did see that he was playing in another league, but guess I never saw where it was a "better skilled" league, so I missed the fact that paraphrasing your words "he was playing down".
Bottom line all this stuff should have been covered by the league prior to this kid playing, if the coach/board member knew enough to want him to play then he should have known that he was "overly skilled" to even play in that league, so he should have been stopped from entering the league in the first place if his skills were that far above the level of the other players, and the league wishes were to keep skills even so nobodys feelings got hurt. Once you accept a kid into your league IMO as long as there isn't a safety concern, and I mean one like he has no control and has hit XX number of batters, sent X to the hospital, fractured X number of helmets...(just kidding, but some sort of ligitimate concern, not just he throws fast) then you live with the kid till the end of the season.
Again if you are correct and this kid was a ringer pulled down to this little rec league to bring someone a championship that is wrong, just as wrong as a league official trying to get him not to be able to pitch just because he wants his team to win. I'm not taking sides, just commenting that IMO you can't pull a kid because he is too good and he is beating your team.
And about a kid playing rec league when he/she also plays travel ball, in my years I have seen it several times. Mom and Dad have the time and money to take them to travel, but they still play with their friends in rec league, keeping up that team feeling for when they all play high school ball together. It has worked on most occasions in our league without issue I know we have never made the news over it anyway!!
