When Little League International revoked Jackie Robinson West’s title on Feb. 11, it found that JRW and the Illinois District 4 Administrator falsified a boundary map to place players on their team “who did not qualify to play because they lived outside the team’s boundaries.” Afterwards, much of the backlash in Chicago was directed not at the JRW coaches and league officials who broke the rules, but specifically at Janes and Konkol, the reporter — the men who blew the whistle.
