Little League

My wife and my kids have known that sometimes I’ll be at a little league game or I’ll be at a school play, and I have to run and jump on a plane because there’s breaking news.

With his mother standing nearby, the Little League catcher gushed, “It’s like the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

Within hours of the mid-morning ribbon cutting, dozens of children traipsed through the play areas, seniors were deep into a bingo game and families lined up for a Little League baseball ceremony.

I was covering Little League baseball in Davis, an exercise in recycling adjectives to describe home runs that were clobbered, ripped, slugged, rocketed, smoked and launched.

As a child growing up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Khanna said, he flourished because everyone from his teachers to Little League coaches had helped him.