Little League Classic: Big Leaguers, Little Leaguers, and Unscripted Moments
WILLIAMSPORT,Pa.– once the team planes of the
/name/nym/new-york-mets”
>New York Mets
land in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on sunday for this year’s Little
League Classic, the Little Leaguers will surround the big leaguers. what
happens after that is unscripted, unstructured and unpredictable. Because
you never know what kids might say.
One of the kids is probably going to ask
Cal Raleigh
about his nickname, the Big Dumper — and they will ask if Raleigh’s mom
still doesn’t like the nickname. Raleigh might show the kids the bat he’s
using this weekend, which reads: “Big butt… even BIGGER BOMBS.”
Somebody is probably going to ask
Pete Alonso
about being called Polar Bear because, well, kids love animals. Somebody
will ask
/id/36969/juan-soto”
>Juan soto
hasn’t done the Soto shuffle in his first season with the Mets, but some
of the kids might try to show off their impersonations of it for him.
The byplay of thes ballplayers,old and young,is unscripted,
unstructured and unpredictable,and yet,the outcome is unavoidable.
“It is indeed one of the funnest things I’ve been a part of,” said
How Cal Raleigh became a very big deal
/id/45709842/mlb-2025-cal-raleigh-mariners-national-stage-all-star-home-run-derby”
>Jeff Passan
Mets shortstop
/id/33192/aaron-judge”
>Aaron Judge
sat among Little Leaguers in the stands in last year’s Little League
Classic, cameras caught some of them just looking up at him, gawking —
watching him watch a game. Another Little Leaguer doing an in-game
interview with Yankees pitcher
/name/det/detroit-tigers”
>Detroit Tigers
manager A.J. Hinch saw how special williamsport can be when his team made
the trip for the Little League Classic last year.
“I was blown away by the whole environment at the Little League World
Series,” he wrote in a text, “and our game was a fun change to the
schedule.
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