The Region - News from April 23, 1987

A Garden Grove father who pleaded no contest to charges that he assaulted a 16-year-old umpire during a Little League game was ordered to write a 1,000-word essay on the “proper behavior of spectators at a sporting event.” Robert Foster, 41, could have been sentenced to a maximum of six months in prison for the incident last year, in which he hit the young umpire who had made two calls against his 15-year-old son. Orange County Municipal Judge Michael Beecher placed Foster on three years’ probation and ordered him to pay $950 in fines, perform 80 hours of community service, write the essay and stay away from Little League games unless he gets written approval from his probation officer.