The park where the children from Our Lady of Lourdes play their baseball games is north of the Loop, not far from the restaurants Blueberry Hill and Cicero’s.

It is on the side of town that is closer to Wellston than it is Clayton. It is in a place where, this caller told a dumbfounded coach, some people from Webster Groves simply don’t want to take their children.

“We were perplexed,” Claire LeGrand told me. “It is such a lovely park. It is where we play all of our games. We asked our visitors, could this woman really be saying what we think she was saying?”

Told that the team from Mary Queen of Peace wouldn’t be there, the Our Lady of Lourdes coach canceled the game. Needless to say, the children, who had suffered through early season rainouts and were looking forward to a beautiful sunny day for baseball, were disappointed.

“One of the assistant coach’s sons cried himself to sleep,” Claire LeGrand said.

She decided to channel her anger over the unnecessary fear into a Facebook post that didn’t hold back many punches.