The new darlings of the sports world are a group of 11 and 12-year-olds from Endwell, New York. They play baseball. And they are the new Little League World Series champions.<\/p>\n
Endwell is but a pop fly from where I grew up in Binghamton, New York\u2026 home of carousels, spiedies, and (formerly) the B.C. Open. It didn\u2019t take much to get everyone in America rooting for these boys, just a win here, a win there, and the backing of major league baseball\u2019s commissioner, himself a native of upstate New York.<\/p>\n
I have no connection to the team, of course, and how different is one group of kids I don\u2019t know from another? Nothing. Yet still I felt good watching the boys from America\u2019s \u201cMid-Atlantic\u201d play South Korea in yesterday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n
What made it super awesome?<\/p>\n
Everybody<\/i> felt good about it.<\/p>\n
Congrats, M-E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The new darlings of the sports world are a group of 11 and 12-year-olds from Endwell, New York. They play baseball. And they are the new Little League World Series champions. Endwell is but a pop fly from where I … Continue reading