The Spartans had a very deep dark side. The one segment from the History Channel show on this, was a description of a "Spartan's child-play incident". Some boys were playing some kid game, and the loser was so enraged by losing, he killed the winner with his bare hands. The mother of the killer-boy, was so proud and patted her son on the head saying... "you'll be a good Spartan, I'm proud of you". No punishment.
Can you imagine what Little League games would be like if we adopted that attitude?