When did baseball come to this?

I loved playing baseball growing up. I still enjoy watching an occasional game. I used to spend hour after hour playing with baseball cards. I have read books by comedians such as Joe Garagiola and Bob Eucher (sic). Basically, baseball was great exercise and recreation.
Men such as Tommy Lasorda, Whitey Herzog, George Brett, Willie Stargell and more talked about sportsmanship. Men such as Roberto Clemente gave back to the community...it was good stuff.
Lets look at baseball now. Steroid controversies, "heroes" corking their bats, pitchers beating up cameramen...so let's dismiss them and just look at people still playing the game as a game instead of a business.
Oh, wait, we can't do that either. Just last week I wrote about a coach who allegedly paid an EIGHT year old 25 bucks to plunk a mentally disabled kid who was dragging down his t-ball team. That is flat out stupid. Frankly, it sucks when I see the game I love sink so low. At least incidents like that are as low as the game gets. Or are they?
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/3838490
That's right, boys and girls, an umpire forced a team of teenagers and sub-teens to stop speaking Spanish. Good to know in a world that preaches tolerance and acceptance committing the crime of knowing a second language is cheating at baseball.
How is it possible that someone today can believe preventing people from speaking the language they choose to each other is an acceptable practice? I am stunned and mystified.
Do not get me wrong. I do believe when you visit or move to a country you should learn and use that language when interacting in business or interacting with the native peoples. (My definition of native in this context is a person born and raised in that country.)
I have carefully observed Quebec and the difficulties stemming from their insistence on a different language. That has nearly split an otherwise peaceful, relatively harmonious nation into fragments.
Nevertheless, people engaged in conversation amongst them selves have every right to speak whatever language they choose.
Saying baseball players cannot speak Spanish is unconscionable. Baseball has a long and honored tradition of cants, jargon, signals and other "secret" communication. Using Spanish, particularly in todays environment, is much less likely to be secret.
No, this smacks of one thing and one thing only. Usually I am one of the last to cry racism. I think it is a charge that is overused and more often than not inaccurate. But when it comes to a seriously unimportant game of baseball and someone is banned from communicating in Spanish...there really are only about three excuses; ignorance, stupidity or racism. Frankly, in the game I love, none of them is acceptable.