Little League tells North Trenton team their neighborhood is too violent for games

7/2/11, "Little leaguers forfeit game over concerns about violence at Trenton park"

• North Trenton Little Leaguers felt their field was safe (per Manager on video) and didn't want their home game moved to a different venue. They chose to forfeit a game rather than move to another field.

"North Trenton little leaguers practice on their field on Thursday, June 30, 2011, instead of playing a scheduled game (video). According to Manager Branford (June) Colvin, the district administration took away their home game because the neighborhood is not safe. The North Trenton Little League team was scheduled to play Cranbury-Plainsboro at its home field Al Downing Field in Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Trenton's North Ward. But the team never played, choosing instead to forfeit after a Little League official moved the game to a Six-Eleven Little League field in Hamilton

• because of fears about neighborhood violence."

7/2/11, Trenton Times, by Martin Griff

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