Nothing little about Burkett's ride.(SPORTS)

Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) | May 27, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Rich Garven

The silence on the other end of the line said it all. It was time to come home.

It was a sweltering August of 2002, and I had just spent four cool days covering Worcester's Jesse Burkett All-Stars in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. The team played three games in that time, winning two. I wrote 12 stories, most by day, and spent the humid summer evenings sampling a local favorite known as Yuengling lager with photographer Rick Cinclair.

Burkett would play three more games, winning one on a walk-off homer by Ryan Griffin before ...

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