Texas Youth Baseball Team Requires Kids to Get COVID Vaccine to Play in Tournament — But They’re Too Young to Even Qualify

A youth baseball team in Texas is requiring kids to get a COVID vaccine to play in a tournament that they have been preparing for since 2018 — but the players aren’t even old enough to qualify for it.

The Texas Drillers have been preparing to travel to the Baseball Hall of Fame and play in a tournament in New York for the last three years. The team has spent approximately $17,000 on flights, rental homes and equipment.

“It’s amazing,” Dillon Norris, a Texas Drillers player, said of the tournament. “It’s probably the best thing that happened to me this year. It would be pretty special, because I don’t know a lot of people who played up there.”

However, ABC 13 reports that Cooperstown Dreams Park,

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