Night Owl Cards

You probably heard about, or even saw, a team called Maine-Endwell win the Little League World Series Championship on Sunday. The ESPN announcers did a decent job of explaining that the players on the team come from a community of around 10,000 people just north of the Pennsylvania border. The community is actually a school district. The Maine-Endwell Spartans have been a state power in football for awhile and are now well-known as raising really good 12-year-old baseball players. But I knew most of that already. From the time I was 13 until I left home, I lived a block from Endwell, N.Y. I used to watch the Little League World Series championship game every year on ABC. It was fun to see kids my age competing on national television. Even though they always seemed to be from Washington or California. But as the years went on, I stopped paying attention, and began to get annoyed with the amount of time ESPN devoted to it. That all changed this year. I watched three or four of...