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Take a look into a little league tournament hosted in Cooperstown. More than 100 teams nationwide come to participate in the event.

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Hi everyone and welcome bit buttons I'm reading your -- -- for a guy this. Yeah -- might keep it of course you all know Brett Carroll in this building. Quietly he's been well -- keep a close -- in his head percent. Percent it's part baseball. The million dollar question on you do you know Cooperstown asked. We'll -- exactly 1430. Miles from land -- stadium. In upstate New York. It and they'd punch -- hit the high teens or a Baseball Hall of Fame. The record show you -- temple versus Seattle this. It's going. The coast -- spin this score one on 100 into the teens the -- -- -- sand -- back in the mid June. The tournament -- seventeen from Florida including the west and Hawks in the plantations guys. The facility opened in 1996. And it's. 22 fields. Cooperstown james' park is a dream come true for president -- pursuit. Well in 1975. In Cooperstown New York my dad and I were at the Baseball Hall of Fame -- my five year old -- And my -- as -- standing in front of Babe Ruth statue looks over -- should. When to be great if every kid in America could have the opportunity to play this -- Cooperstown. Push you got the legendary baseball that was Doubleday field walk around a corner -- Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb Lou Gehrig's consecutive days and all of you know all the legends of the past if we look at it through the -- -- pull -- this park is built for the guys in the twelfth. Each team's Spanish -- weekend the smart -- at least two games today it's all about baseball here in upstate New York. But nine had kind of been up playing baseball kind of like playing the football watching other teams played. These kids do the ones that are of your loved baseball and that's really what they want to do we don't want offered to what you know -- -- -- as far as an arcade game. And all these different things because that's not what they wanted to they want to play baseball. That's really you know -- world well. I played for the of the -- things can happen. Each twelve year old played multiple positions including pitching. The first part of the tournament is called cool on the Panthers -- -- -- around the place sixteen going into the elimination round. Well a lot of home runs. That's the stolen bases. Nice defensive plays. In of course some controversy -- -- guys. Never made any bad calls this. Is anybody of that -- -- Yes. That is. This -- But it didn't hurt the chances as they please tied for third among 100 in -- in impressive finish among many talented kids. That's different Cooperstown did a great job tournament -- to see that the -- game. And the. That's great guy and defense -- the best thing about the trip. I think the best thing about it was I -- Palmer -- talk about him. The best thing about this thing in the dorms at my teammates. I'm glad he had had a great time insurers such a great experience that he's on the kid glove yet log on the -- dot com and check out the cool things for kids. State team to very bad for -- and start later and showed -- behind Pistons sort of the whole thing. Put up next branded check that site.

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