Baseball is America’s sport, but it can be a grind. The games are long. The sun beats down on you, and those long pants and high socks are unforgiving in the heat. And it’s lonely out there on the mound if you find yourself down on the pitch count.

But as a kid from the Chicago area, there’s likely nowhere else you’d rather be than out there on the field with your best friends. This summer, a special group of boys from Clarendon Hills have turned that dream into a season to remember — and the good times aren’t over yet.

The Clarendon Hills Little League team has been practicing twice a day since June, and their hard work resulted in a Great Lakes Regional Championship.

The next morning, a bus was waiting outside their hotel to drive them from Whitestown, Indiana, to Williamsport, P

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