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After being mocked by game at Chuck E. Cheese's, 9-year-old girl gets manufacturer to remove softball snub

NAPERVILLE, Ill. - While out with her mom and some friends at the Naperville Chuck E. Cheese's, 9-year-old Marie Marcum, an experienced softball player, decided to show off her skills in a baseball throwing game.

Marie, who plays second base for the Plainfield Twisters travel softball team, said she had no trouble hitting the strike zone, but when one ball bounced off the game and onto the floor, she heard a disturbing taunt from the

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