Little Leaguers closing in on "final days" in Williamsport, Pennsylvania at 2022 LLWS

 

My kid's books, Billy's Victory and the sequel, The Return of Johnny Dugan, are still alive and swinging away, available at Amazon Kindle or in paperback form, too -- two quick-read fiction books about young athletes and their passion for baseball.

Plenty of young heroes -- including 11-year-old Billy Ray Reynolds in Billy's Victory and the slightly grown-up teenagers, the McPherson brothers -- Boomer, Bumper, Bugs and Booker T -- in The Return of Johnny Dugan, as they run the bases, hit homers and lead their team to victory.

Of course in real life, it's double-elimination time in Williamsport as the Little Leaguers head for the final weekend of play. The teams to beat include: U.S teams still swinging away at the mid-way point of Week 2 -- Tennessee, Iowa, Texas, a home-grown  Pennsylvania team and a team from Honolulu, Hawaii, while the top international teams still alive and swinging away are  Canada, Mexico, Curacao, Chinese Taipei and Nicaragua,

Good luck to the remaining teams.