When you played Little League baseball back in the day, did your coach ever get ejected?

My coach never got ejected, but as an umpire I ejected two coaches. One for swearing at me twice, and the other for refusing not to smoke in the dugout. Both guys deserved it. One apologized after the game (the potty mouth), the other forfeited all future games at our field (the smoker).

Yes - quite frequently. Actually the best thing was in a playoff game. We had three coaches, but there was some rule that in the playoffs only two of them could be on the bench. Manager gets ejected. A few innings later the other coach on the bench gets ejected. Think there was a 30-45 minute delay while they called Williamsport to see if the third coach (sitting in the stands) could coach the rest of the game. Our third coach was allowed to coach us, and I think we won the game.

Yes . We played pony bb as did my sons. The only thing little league has going for it is tv time. They have some REAl stupid rules, like no lead offs, no stealing and the mound is to close. I mean come on their 12 years old let them play real baseball. Ok I'm ready to get bombarded with ridicule for be critical of LL.

I hated the field-specific or league-specific rules. I had some douche coach tell me a player was out at home because he didn't slide. The runner beat the throw by several seconds. I love baseball, but some of the coaches need to check their egos at the door and realize their glory days are over or never happened. Let the kids play, and keep them humble.

Yep. My brother and I came up through Vine-Ingle Little League down in Macon, Georgia. Both of our coaches got ejected at various times for flying off the handle at "bad" calls. The umpires were basically kids too just maybe four/five years older than us...if that.

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Yes . We played pony bb as did my sons. The only thing little league has going for it is tv time. They have some REAl stupid rules, like no lead offs, no stealing and the mound is to close. I mean come on their 12 years old let them play real baseball. Ok I'm ready to get bombarded with ridicule for be critical of LL.

What the F is pony baseball??

As a LL coach, we had to umpire a game in one of the neighboring leagues once per season. Holy shit, one of the worst experiences of my life. I umped the bases for the first 3 innings - I swear to God, almost every play at first base was a f***ing dead tie - half the crowd loved me, half the crowd wanted me dead...depending on which team got the better end of my shitty umpiring. Next 3 innings were behind the plate - I didn't think I'd get out of there alive.

I hear you - always thought that it would be easy. F*** being an umpire...One play the ball got there about an hour before the runner, but the kid slid under the tag. I called him safe and the whole flippin' town blew up.

The second game of the double header, I was behind the plate. The kid kept hitting the same spot - a spot that I first called a ball, so even though it could have been a strike, I figured I would be consistent and call that location a ball every time. Looking back on it I should have called those pitches strikes, but every single time I was getting yelled at.

I got hit in the nuts with a foul ball and went down hard. After that no one gave me much sh** luckily, figured I'd had a hard enough day.

Yes my little league boach got ejected. Honestly on a quite frequent basis. He is the meanest sob I have ever met and I would have hated to be an ump during our games. Couch Houcke had the shortest fuse and biggest temper you can imagine and always wanted to fight someone. Looking back it is amazing he was able to be responsible for 15 kids every day after school. Now way that flies today. I've got stories of things that went down during practice which would make any parent pee their pants knowing that man was the guardian of thier child. He personally sent me to the ER on three ocasions over the 4 seasons I played for him. The first for being a pussy - I was flinching when line drives came my way, so he taught me pain is only in your mind by cracking my rib after blasting me with a line drive at 15 feet (he made me stand at 15 feet with no glove while he beaned me until I quit trying to dodge them and just took the bean). The second was in front of my father when I wasn't paying attention in practice he threw a ball at my head and connected = concussion. The third for mouthing off to the ref during a game, I got ejected and when I got back to the dugout he threw me down on the bench so hard that I dislocated my shoulder.

That said I admired the "intense" attitude he instilled in me. I can honestly say Couch Houcke single handedly taught me intense competitiveness and I wouldn't have been the athlete I was without him as my little league coach.

Not in baseball but in football our coach got ejected every other game.

Pony is a youth baseball organization. Starts at about 5yrs to 18yrs. Most LL players advance to pony 13-14 then to colt15-17. Pony is also in about 40-50 other countries. The world series for 10yr is in irvine Texas, 11yr is near Richmond Virginia, 12 yr is in Carmel ca. Colt league is in Indiana. Pony and the other major youth leagues play with very similar rules and base. Lengths. Unlike t-ball, I mean little league.

I got ejected from a game and my coach did shortly after for sticking up for me.

I've got Tourette's and was pitching. When I was 12 my tics were more obvious and severe than they are now, and as a tactic for getting into my head the other team's coach had his players all line up along the fence in front of their dugout and mimic me. The worst part is that their coach was my neighbor.

At the time we really didn't know what was wrong with me and for some reason many adults thought that if they just showed me how stupid I looked I'd realize it and stop. Well, I was out on the mound getting madder and madder. First I hit one of their batters. But they just took that as a sign that their tactics were working so they got into it more.

Finally I just threw a pitch directly at their dugout. There was a fence so I didn't hit anyone, but I would have done it anyway. I think the umpire felt bad for me but he really didn't have much choice but to eject me. My coach was already furious about the whole thing and when that happened he basically exploded on the other coach. They damn near got into a fight on the field. It was quite a debacle.

No but my coach when I was 10 years old bribed us once. Any put-out in the field was worth $1. A single was $1, double $2, triple $3, home-run $4. An RBI was $1, stolen base was $1, walk was $1. All was null and void if we lost the game. The league was very competitive but not to the degree where this would have been viewed as remotely acceptable (obviously). I still wonder what would have happened if the league found out about it. Besides firing him and keeping him from being a youth coach ever again, I wonder if there would have been legal action taken. Additionally, 2 years later my next coach was convicted of being a pederast. 8 year olds, dude. Little league, those were the days. At the time I dreaded certain aspects of it because it was so competitive and there were so many high pressure situations, but I do miss it. Really gave me my competitive edge I think.

Yes, drinking alcohol on the playing field. I seem to remember he was standing behind 1st base with a beer.

Two kids in our league got in a fight. Their dads were the opposite coaches. Then the dads started fighting. Still laugh about it this 30 years later. The 70's and 80's were so different. Our coach berated us for losing and would make us take laps and chase after us yelling at us and saying we played like girls and we were on the trading block. Milkshakes when we won.

My Dad was the coach for my brother and I and he never remotely came close to getting thrown out. I don't even remember him ever arguing a call and we always won most of our games. He didn't even say anything the game I walked the first 7 batters I faced when the home plate ump called every single pitch a ball. (I normally walked a batter about every 5 or 6 innings)

Later he became an umpire and ref and worked high school games for many years. Nobody knew he had been blind in one eye since he was 22.

Our coach was a nice guy but I was not. I got ejected 4 times, (2 times in Little League, 1 time in YBA basketball, and 1 two-week suspension in middle school).

The two-week suspension was for grabbing a knife in "home economics" (cooking) class in the 7th grade, and punching him with my left. (Knife was in my right hand).

In YBA Basketball, I punched one of the other players on my team, so I got sent home.

In Little League, one player on the opposing team "The Bees" was given me some crap so I took off across the field with a bat, and got thrown out of the game.

In my last little league game, some guys (classmates) in the stands were saying somethings I didn't like so I grabbed a bat and went after them but my uncle and dad stopped me. That was the end of my baseball career.

One of my kids coaches had his wife stand behind the opposing dugout to listen to the coaches pregame and try to get their signals. This was in regular season games! Sick shit! It's Little League for God's sake. I feel the same way about JV sports in high school. You ignore the calls and play the damn game. You teach fundamentals and let the kids have the opportunity to compete. If you want to change that philosophy as they get to varsity fine.