Two youth baseball coaches have been fired after they were filmed stripping naked and streaking at an upstate New York tournament for under-12s.
Video circulating online shows the unidentified coaches from Lake Bluff, Illinois, stripping down under the field lights while their team was in Cooperstown for a tournament last weekend.
One of the coaches, baring it all, slides headfirst into home plate as stunned children laugh.
One coach slides into home plate in the nude, video shows. CBS News
“Oh my God!” one child exclaims, as another gasps: “What the hell?”
“Is he naked?” another kid asks.
It’s not clear what motivated the coaches to get naked for the creepy stunt.
However, their team — the Lake Bluff Youth Baseball Association’s 12 and under Blue team — was disqualified and the local sheriff’s department was called in, according to CBS Chicago.
Both coaches have been fired, the youth league confirmed.
“We are treating this matter with the utmost seriousness and have contacted relevant authorities. We will continue to support those authorities in their investigations of this matter,” the association, from north of Chicago, said in a statement.
It’s not clear what motivated the coaches to get naked. CBS News
“We have also taken immediate and decisive action by terminating the assistant coaches involved,” the association added.
Deputies were called to the Cooperstown All Star Village around 1 a.m. Saturday morning after security reported that two men refused to leave, the Otsego County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The deputies arrived after the men had already left, but were told by employees about the reports of the men “streaking” on one of the fields.
Witnesses had already left — and when deputies returned the next day, everyone involved had gone back to Illinois, the sheriff’s office said.
However, the footage was obtained by the Otsego County District Attorney’s Office, which “advised that prosecution was declined due to the level of criminality involved and the fact that all parties reside out of state,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
It’s unclear if the coaches were any of the players’ parents.
The Lake Bluff Youth Baseball Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment.