SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Standing between these two youth sports cathedrals is usually all it takes to make children, family members and fans alike weep with wonder.
Here, at the center of the youth baseball universe, is where kids from the Far East and American Southwest trade pins; little ones from the Caribbean and Australia, cloaked in their older siblings’ jerseys, weave around the grown-ups in a game of tag; Venezuelans and New Englanders listen to live music together as they stand in concession lines.
For 10 days in August, the Little League World Series transforms this concrete concourse into a Central Pennsylvania cosmopolitan city.