Coach Pays to Have Retarded Kid Beat Up Tonya Harding Style

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PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A T-ball coach allegedly paid one of his players $25 to hurt an 8-year-old mentally disabled teammate so he wouldn't have to put the boy in the game, police said Friday.

Mark R. Downs Jr., 27, of Dunbar, is accused of offering one of his players the money to hit the boy in the head with a baseball, police said. Witnesses told police Downs didn't want the boy to play in the game because of his disability.

"The coach was very competitive," state police Trooper Thomas B. Broadwater said. "He wanted to win."

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Competitive!

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