That is horrible. We were there a few years ago, and nothing like that happened to us. I find it hard to believe that the Cooperstown Dream Park folks don't have edit - a better - mercy rule. It's really disappointing that they let this happen.
We did have an issue with bad sportsmanship, but the tournament director intervened. It was a close elimination game, and their players were trying to rattle our pitcher by hollering their little heads off and banging their bats against the roof of the dugout every time he came set. It was working. Our coach called our boys off the field and called the tournament director, who said they could holler, but quit with the bats. We won, and after the game I overheard one of the parents say, "it didn't work this time." Sheesh. Another parent threatened our pitcher, and another parent came to our next game, walked into the place where we were sitting (he knew not where he was) and bad-mouthed our coach to the closest umpire. It was easy to see where the boys got it from.
It really was a great week, though.
