A SIDEWAYS GLANCE; BOY GETS PAID NOT TO PLAY.An 11-year-old Fresno Fresno (frĕz`nō), city (1990 pop. 354,202), seat of Fresno co., S central Calif.; inc. 1885. Settled in 1872 as a station on the Central Pacific RR, Fresno profited from irrigated farming as early as the 1880s. boy wants to play baseball, but instead he's getting $1,235.20. After some wrangling in court, a judge gave Spartan Little League officials two choices - either let Peter C. Lang Lang language LANG Louisiana Army National Guard Lang Langobardian (linguistics) LANG Los Angeles Newspaper Guild play with the league's Major Giants or pay the boy compensatory and punitive damages Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. plus court costs court costs n. fees for expenses that the courts pass on to attorneys, who then pass them on to their clients or, in some kinds of cases, to the losing party. . The league's board of directors chose to pay and said Wednesday the check was on its way. But Lang says it's not the money he wants. ``I really just wanted a chance to play with my friends,'' he said. The controversy started in March when Lang was invited to practice with the team by a former coach because some players were not showing up for practices. Later, the boy's father approached the league's vice president, Elaine Robertson, and paid the $40 registration fee for his son to play for the Giants. But the league's president, Reno Jarrell, said the boy could not be on the team because he missed the registration deadline. |
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