re: Little league football coach strikes 9 year old on the helmet over a bad play

My son played rec football/baseball from age 5 to high school. In all those years and coaches there was only one occasion where I had to go after the coach...and it wasn’t even my kid. This was in ponchatoula, 8 yo rec baseball. This kids dad had just been deployed overseas. The kid wasn’t the best athlete but he was making the most of it and was pretty bummed because his dad was deployed. During practice the coached is chiding him specifically pretty good. The kid messed up trying to steal 2nd and got out. The coach lost his ever-loving mind and started calling the kid names. The kid paid him no mind which set the coach off even more and he started running across the diamond towards the kid. I hopped the fence and got between him and the kid. We had us a little discussion about his behavior.