Used to be, T-ball was a vehicle for teaching kids about sportsmanship and teamwork in a competition-free atmosphere. Winning and losing didn’t matter, whiffs were as good as hits, and at the end of the season, everybody got trophies for showing up.

Apparently, things have changed. At least in Evansdale, Iowa, where a team full of 5- and 7-year-olds were disqualified from the end-of-season Evansdale Youth Sports Association T-ball tourney for stocking the roster with mustachioed ringers*.

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