Ear on Chicago; Little League

You can't take your Following you've hit 300 Pomberlons collect yourைadxt routine, Alright, let's go! The solar panel is jingle up, And this is Hugh Hill speaking to you from Hamlin Park at Wellington and Damon in Chicago. Today we're doing the story of the little leagues and they're in a baseball game right now. That's the sound you were hearing. There's a bass hit or at least a ground ball to the pitcher and not quite a bass hit, but the runner was thrown out over it first. That's the end of a half an inning. And we want to talk to some of the people who are connected with this little league, including Mr. Anthony Nicolette, who is the athletic director of the Chicago Boys Clubs and director of Kawano Chicago Boys Clubs. Mr. Nicolette, the ball game is going on at the present time. Somebody just hit a long fly ball. It's like maybe a home run. No, he's not going to make it. He's not going to make it. Yes, he's going to make it. He's going to make it. He stopped the third, but he's going to go all the way in. But now I'll tell you, you and I stood out here for about half an hour and I watched the ball game and saw how these kids take such a tremendous interest in this game of baseball. And this is certainly a

wonderful thing for the boys of Chicago. It certainly is. We should have more of it. Now, how did this all start, Mr. Nicolette? And we'll have to be a little specific here. First of all, you are director of the Kawano's Boys Club. And do you have a team playing in this game here? Yes, the team that's playing right now, the Kawano's Club is playing against Midwest. These two teams have won two and lost none as I have it. And they play once a week and they play outside teams in between time. You play here at Hamlin Park? Hamlin Park, we're playing a little league. Well, now you're playing in a tournament right now. Yes, I run the tournament. Yes, I run the tournament. How does the tournament work? We have four teams in the tournament, four little league tournaments. Of course, little league, we mean boys under 13 years of age. Yes. And the pony leagues are boys under 16 years of age. Yes. And we're playing little league rules at present. And of course, we've always had little league. We call it junior many years ago, junior leagues. But now it's little league. Little league. And we've always had the pony league, but we call them senior leagues many years ago. Well, now this tournament, is it around Robin tournament or elimination or what? No, it's around Robin tournaments. They play two rounds. They play each other just twice during the whole tournament. I

see. Well, then how many total games would they play? All together they play six games a piece. I see. In other words, there's three teams. Three teams. Another four teams. You can't play yourself, of course. Four teams, I see. And this is two of them. All right. Now we have the Kiwanis team here. Where are they from? What location? Our location is the area of Sheffield and Diversi. And the Midwest boys? They're from Washington Boulevard and Sacramento. I see. Now Mr. Holmes over here that we talked to a little while ago. He's the coach of the Midwest team. He's the coach of the Midwest team. We have 15 Chicago boys clubs all together in this city. And we try to give him as much as we can in athletics because we think that that's a fine thing for boys, you see. It's a natural for boys, athletics, you see. So when did this tournament start? This tournament started three weeks ago. Three weeks ago. And these boys here are got a two -and -oh record. That's right. That's right. Well, they got a pretty good chance of... You know, Kidden. This is going to be a good game today. Watch it. It's pretty tough now. I think it's about the first half or the last half of the third inning. What is it? The first half of the third inning. The last half of the third inning. Now they play seven innings, right? Seven innings, that's right. In case of rain, it's four and a half

innings. The team is going to compete four and a half innings wins, of course. Or in case of a tie, the keep on playing the team wins, of course. What time do you start your games, usually? We usually start our games at 12 .30, the first game, and we allow them to go an hour and 45 minutes. If they play their seven innings and allow them 45 minutes, well, and good. But if they play over an hour and we stop them, now in 45 minutes, we think that's enough. Yeah. Now in 45 minutes. Do you have many spectators today? You don't have too many? Well, you see, they have the games here in the afternoon, and not too many spectators. It's just too bad we can't have in the evening. Well, now, Mr. Nicolette, before we get into some of the things that you teach these boys in this game of baseball, I'd like to talk to some of the boys that are standing around listening to us because these boys are players. They're not playing today, but they're playing on one of your teams, right? They're playing this. This game is from the Leather Club. That's over here on diversity and Levit Street, yeah. All right, all right. Now let's start with you. What's your name? Peter Lodato. All right, Peter. What do you play? I play third base and catch your own. What kind of a hitting average do you have?

I have three for seven this year, I'm betting four -twenty -eight. Four -twenty -eight. Well, that's pretty good. Is that high for little leagues or is it... It's pretty high, it's high. It's high. What's your name? Jin Koso. Jin? All right, Jin, what position do you play? Catch your own short stuff. What's the team's record as of today? One in one, but last year we were in Little League. We took championship. You took the championship last year? Really? With the same group of boys? The same group of boys. And so in a couple years we'll improve more, too. What happened when you lost that one game? You have a one -on -one record. You lost the game. What happened? Well, see, we played that game down in Lincoln Boys coming out of guys and show up because there was far away and it was the first game we ever played there. All right, see. What's your name, son? My name is Bob Schultz. Bob, what position do you play? I play the infield. You look like a catcher. No, sir. Pretty beefy. How much do you weigh? Too much. All right, we won't put you on the scales, Bob. What's your

batting average? Well, I just started this year and I've walked each time enough. Well, you're then you're batting a thousand. You haven't got an official time at the plates instead of giving a zero. We'll give you a thousand. What's your name? Ira Green. Ira Green. Where do you live, Ira? 2038 to version. You like to play in this little league? Yeah. What position do you play? I'll feel. What, center, right? Uh, mostly center. Well, you play any position in the infield. Are you pretty fast? Yeah. You got a good arm? Yeah. And you say, what did you say your batting average was? Or did you say? I didn't say it. It's 750. Well, you got a good arm. You're fast and you bat 750. You must be the star of this team. I don't know. You bat in the cleanup position? No. I lead off. Well, you're the lead off, man. What do you go to? Do you hit singles or doubles? Are you long ball hit or what? Well, I usually hit line drives. Oh, you usually hit line drives. Yes. Wouldn't you like to be a pitcher? Nope. Rather

play the outfield. Yeah, I try pitcher. What are you going to do when you grow up? I want to be baseball player. What's your name, son? Jimmy Robinson. Are you in this late -themed team, Jimmy? Nope. I'm on the Midwest Boys Club pony league. Well, they're playing today. I know. That's a little league now. Oh, I see. You're in the pony league. I thought we were supposed to have a game where a league and boys club the day, but they post -poned ours to Friday and put the little league today on Monday. Well, they're a couple of wet grounds here today. They only die when they're playing on. That's the only one that is dry. The other ones are kind of wet. I suppose maybe that's one of the reasons they post -poned your game. Yes. I guess so. Did you play little leagues? No. I didn't get a chance to do it when I was small. How old are you, Jimmy? 14. 14. What position do you play? Sure. You're a pretty good hitter? Pretty good. Well, what's your batting average? 333. I got no change there. I walked three times and I got one hit. No, it's 1 ,000. You're batting 1 ,000? Well, there's no good until I bat some more. Well, one for one is 1 ,000. That's not too bad. Here's a couple of boys that are actually playing in today's game. A young man here

with his catcher's paraphernalia on. Got his shin guards and his chest protector and his catcher's mitt in his right hand. What's your name, son? Ben Moses. Bill Moses? Ben. Ben. Oh, Ben, B -E -N. Ben Moses. Yes, sir. You look like a pretty good catcher, Ben. Well, I'll try to be. What's your batting average? 188. That's not too good. No, sir. You're going to bring that up? Yes, sir. All right. What's your name? Fred Chapman. Fred Chapman. What position do you play, Fred? Second base. Where's that boy that hit that home run a little while ago? You hit the home run? Yeah. Oh, you're both hit when you're the shortstop, aren't you? Yes, sir. What's your name? Alexander Thorn. What is it? Alexander Thorn. Alexander Thorn. That's a very good name. What do you like to play best out there? Shortstop or where? Or someplace else? Shortstop. You're a good shortstop, Alex. I saw you out there working and you hit the long ball. You got a home run. Do you hit many home runs? Yeah, I got three. You got three of them. Well, you do hit long balls then. You're a pretty good boy. How many home runs you got, Freddie? Four and

three games. You got a lot of sluggers on this team. Is this the pitcher? Yes, sir. What's your name? Douglas Thorn. Douglas, how tall are you? Four. Three, five. Three foot, five inches? Yes, sir. How much do you weigh? 186. I'm 180, that's right. How much do you weigh? Oh, I weigh 75. 75 pounds. You're pretty little for a pitcher. Can you get the ball over pretty good? Yes, sir. You got a curve ball? Yes, sir. What else? Slider? Yes, sir. Bill! What happened out there, boys? Alex, the boy. I got a precinct. It looks like he got a double. All right. We're going to have to go back here to Mr. Nicolette now, boys, because we've got a lot of things we want to talk about. Yes, sir. All right, fine. We've come over to the other side of the diamond now. We're going to talk to Mr. Nicolette a little more, but Mr. Nicolette, I think, we've got a base runner here, and it might be interesting to listen as the coach talks to him down here. So, can we move down? Yes. Want to meet the coach, you? Yeah. You meet Mr. Polis here, our coach, of

course. How are you, Mr. Polis? Nice to know you. You got to run around first here. Now, I suppose you got some instructions for him. You go ahead. We'll just listen. All right. Take, come back, Johnny. You can't run a false tip. There was a false tip, and Johnny started to take off. He has to come back to first. If that ball hits, it's going to drop, Johnny. Then take off. Oh, big dog. Watch your bear, Johnny. Hold on, Johnny. There was a swing in a miss. The catcher caught the ball. I suppose you wait until the catcher drops it, then you send him down. That's right. Oh, Lucy. Hold on, Johnny. That's a ball. The catcher still hangs on to the ball. That's pretty good catcher. Hold on, Johnny. Hold on, Johnny. Well, they have to stay here until the ball is caught by the catcher. Yeah. They can't run otherwise. It has to hit the catcher's glove. Right. And then they can leave. Right.

There's a pitch. Hold on, Johnny. What's the count now? Up, what's the count? Book count. Come on, Bruce. Strike out. Swing in a miss. The runner's still over here at first base, so we're going to have to wait until something else happens. Come on, Johnny. Got another batter stepping in now. That little picture that you heard a little while ago is out pitching now. Stan's three feet, five inches tall, and weighs 75 pounds. He's a pretty good pitcher, isn't he, Jim? Have you ever faced him before? No. This is our first game with Midwest. He's a good pitcher. Yeah, he's very good. These boys throw curve balls? Yeah. That's wrong. And fast balls, of course. Yeah, they got different change pace and everything like that. They got pretty good control? Yeah, very good control. For their size, that is. You play ball at all?

Yeah, at Lakeview High School. Oh, you're at Lakeview High School? Yeah. You play football? You play basketball? No, sir. Baseball. Just football. All right. They had a conference out there in the mound between their manager and coach Mr. Holmes that we're going to talk to a little later. The pitcher was out there in the catcher now already. There's a pitcher in its ball. And once again, the catcher holds on to it. We'd like to see him drop one, not for the sake of causing an error or anything, but we just like to see what happens. Ball two. Here's another pitch. There, he dropped the ball. He's strong and messed. There goes the throw down a second. He's out at second on an attempted steal. All right, we heard him anyway. You got to send him down, I guess, don't you? Yeah, yes. Thank you. Thank you. You made it. Great. Well, hard he would have made it.

Well, all right. There's no bass runners right now with two outs. And with the way this pitcher is going, I don't know. This is going to be a rough little guy to hit. Take your bass down. Now there's another bass runner. But we're going to move on. All right. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Once again, we've swung over to the third bass side of the diamond. The ball game is still going on. And it's in about the fifth inning. We may be able to get a chance to talk to some of the boys after the ball game is over. I'm not sure. But we're going to head with our story now, because we want to get over here to our microphone. The coach of this Midwest team. We talked to the coach of the Comanus Club. And you heard him coaching that player that was running from first base. He was thrown out a second, unfortunately. So Mr. Nicolette, I wonder if we could be possible if we could talk to Mr. Holmes here. I think so. Let's walk over and see what he's doing. And I'm not sure that my cord will reach that far. Let's see. Mr. Holmes. He's a very busy man right now. How do you do, Mr.

Holmes? Very well, thanks. I don't want to interrupt you too much here, because your coach and his team here. Looks like your team just had a double play, so you're out of the inning. Oh, we made it. You made it. You got a pretty good club here. Well, they're coming along. They're coming along. Where'd you find a pitcher like that? That boy, three foot, four inches or five inches? Wait, 75 pounds. He can throw that ball pretty hard. Pretty good. He's pretty good. He has a brother play shortstop. It was our big stick man. Oh, is this his brother here? Yeah, this is brother. Yeah, we talked to him. He's hit two home runs this year. Three home runs. He's tied with the other fellows. Second baseman. Is that a big boy? He's gotten a rich shirt there. He told me he had four. Oh, a four now. That's right. That's right. They came pretty close count. Well, no, no. I do that. And they worry me until I get a gun. Well, now tell us something about how you teach the boys the game. Do you practice them very much? I mean, when you are not playing? Unfortunately, we don't have a field. You know, where we can get to every day. But we go out at least once a week and try to practice. Of course, on the back of the club there, we have a little area that we are. We have a chance to catch a lot and that sort of thing. And try to get the guys to handle the glove properly. Too much one handed catching many times isn't any good.

So now we've gotten the boys where they catch mostly with two hands. And one hand would necessary. And notice that during the game, you'd walk over every once in a while, maybe to the catcher or to a second baseman to show him how to play the bag or how to handle this glove. I guess they allow you to do that during a game. Well, yes, we have been doing it. After all, they're here to learn the game really. That's the things. And as they're going through their process of play, we try to tell them those little things that help. And the next time it comes along, they might remember. Who bats? Who bats? Who bats? First man is Alex, Chapman, and still well. What do we got down here? Well, I'm holding 15 cents at the long semi. I want to buy some ice cream, I think. We'll have to wait, Doug. It's kind of warm, we'll wait. Well, how do you get the players? How do you recruit? Well, all we did was to put up a sign. The little league ball players were wanted. And took whatever came along. And these boys turned out. These boys turned out. We didn't refuse the one. And unless he just

absolutely couldn't play it. And of course, we have that bunch. Back at the club, we're working with them every day. And that's our thing. And quarters of Midwest Club? Midwest Boys Club, yes. Where is that? Sacramento and Washington Boulevard. Oh, yeah, I know where that is. I know where that is. Well, listen, then how do you get them together as far as playing is concerned? Now, you say your practice every once in a while. But when you first formed your team, how did you decide who was going to play in what position? Well, I'm new at the club. I've only been there six weeks. And the way I did it was just ask the fellows what position they played. And they told me, and that's where it's been. Do you also have a pony league over there? We have a pony league. They aren't as fortunate as these guys here. They've lost two games, three games in fact. This is a two -and -oh record club. Yeah, two -and -oh. In tournament play, yes. Looks like you're going to have three -and -oh after the day. We hope so. We hope so. What score? Score right now, six to three. We're leading. What any? We're in a fifth inning. Six to four. Is that it? Six to five. Six to four only. Six to four, all right. In the fifth inning? In the fifth. Six to four only. Last half of

the fifth. Last half of the fifth. You're last bats. Yep. We hope we don't have to bat that last time. You're only going to have to get them out twice more. That's all. We hope that's all. Well, okay. Thanks so many for talking to us, Mr. Holmes. We may get back to you a little later. All right, thank you. Thank you. Thank you got a man on third over here. You may want to talk to him. I'm going over and listen if you do. Mr. Holmes is walking over here along the third baseline. Let's see if he says anything. We'll listen in here. We can talk about the game. He's got his heavy hitter up there. That fellow that hit four home runs. There goes a long drive way out over the right fielder's head. This may be another home run. If it is, it's home run number five for this big man. Scoring that runner from third. He's taking it easy now. It's an easy home run. Everybody along the third baseline had to shake his hand. He might have been thrown out of the plate. He took so much time, shaking everybody's hand. There was almost a close play at the plate. He hit two home runs. Two home runs. Come here, son. Five of them in three games. You're the boy we talked to a little while ago? That's the farthest ball you ever hit? No, sir.

Where was the farthest ball you ever hit? I hit it here when we were playing Ota. Now, Lincoln. We were playing Lincoln. How far did you hit it? Get it on the wall. Get it on the wall. Get it on the wall. Come on over here. I'm stretching my lines a little bit too much. How far did you hit it? 280 feet? I don't know. When I was starting to feel the same. What do you want to be when you grow up? Big ball player. You want to be a baseball player? Big league baseball player? Yes, sir. How old are you? 12. You're only 12 years old. How do you account for that hit being able to hit that ball so far? I'm just looking at my spotty. What? I look at my spotty and I go into the ball. You just try and meet it? Yes, sir. You don't try and swing for home runs. No, sir. You don't swing too hard. I just try to get wood on the back. Just get good wood on the back. On the ball, you mean? On the ball. Well, you got good wood on at that time. You hit a long one. Yes. Okay, that's how many home runs now for you? Five. Five home runs. You're going to break Bay Blues record here before long. I try.

Okay. Let's get back over here to Mr. Nicolat because there's a few things we haven't talked about. And as I told you, Mr. Nicolat is the athletic director for the Kiwanis Boys Club or the director of the Kiwanis Boys Clubs of Chicago and the athletic director of Chicago Boys Clubs. Now, I'm going to have to have you explain all that. Yes, well, I've always been the last 34 years. It's been my job to hit up all the basketball and baseball and softball tournaments in Chicago Boys Clubs. And I am a physical ed man. I have a green physical education. I guess that's my job. It's been my job for 34 years. You've been in this work for 34 years? 34 years, yes. Well, now, what do you have besides the little leagues, the baseball teams? Oh, you know, Boys Clubs have quite a program. We have arts and crafts. We all have good game rooms, Marvel's game rooms. We all have basketball, gyms. We have libraries in all of our boys' clubs. We have what's shopping most of our boys' clubs, swimming and three of our clubs. What we have a program that's suited to boys, you know, keep them off the street. What's the age limits

for your boys' clubs? 6 to 18 years of age. And where are they located? Well, we have located in areas in this town where they're most needed. For instance, my club is at Sheffield University. And the Midwest Club is at Washington Sacramento. Lincoln Club is at Orchard and Willow. Lately, the club here is on diversity and whine. And we got one Laundale, 28 -01 South Ridgeway. We have another one at 64 -31 South University Avenue. That's Woodland Boys' Club. Then we have Old Town Club at Newbury in Maxwell. And we have others too. Well, who dispensers these boys' clubs besides the Kiwanis? Well, here's what happens in the boys' clubs. The community fund gives us about 20 % of our total budget. And we go out and raise the rest in the communities if we can. How do you do that? Why through endomance and contributions if we can? It's not a city project. No, it's not a city project. It's a private affair. You're the president? No, I'm not the president. I'm just one of the directors. Mr. Rudolph is the executive president of the thing. I see. You know, I had a coach one time by the name of Nicolette. A red head? A fellow down in Gillespie, Illinois.

Oh, my. No relation of mine. You're not red -headed? No, no. I'm skin -headed. What do you got a few left there? You keep working on it and making on it a little bit. I suppose. Well, now tell us about this trip that the boys are going to take next month to the camps. That's what I wanted to talk to you about next. Well, now we have four periods we have to go to our camp. And our camps are located one only in Indiana. That's where all the boys go. Lake Indiana. One only Lake Indiana. And the other group goes to Williams Bay, other groups of boys. That's the latest camp we have. Mr. Harris of the Harris Trust Company gave it to us. And then we have another group that goes to Warsaw, Indiana, Pike Lake. That's where the girls go. We have girls come to our clubs, too, you know. Girls come to the boys club? Oh, yeah. We have some of the clubs that have... What do the boys think about that? Well, they like that. That's the older ones like it. Oh, well, they do and they don't. All depends. And so that we accommodate about 2 ,500 kids for camps every summer. And what are you leaving this year? Well, the third group will leave next

Thursday. I see in Depot at a quarter to nine. And where will they be going now? They'll be going to one only Lake and Warsaw, Indiana. Well, they're all in Indiana. All Indiana, accepting the one in Williams Bay. And that's the one that's outside of Lake Geneva. Are you going along with them? Well, my job is to get them on the train and see if they all get a seat. Boy, that's a job, too. I bet it is. We have five coaches, and boy, I'd like for you to come down some morning and watch that. I'd like to see you get them on the train. Well, I can. In the seven minutes, too. Do their parents bring them down? Or the parents bring them down. They handle their baggage until the gates to the... waiting to the, what they called it, boarding the train. And after that, we take the baggage and out of camp we have trucks that pick them up. Well, now, is there any cost to the boys? We usually charge 24, 50 for two weeks for those that can afford it. And those that can afford it pay less, and some don't pay anything. 24, 50 for two weeks. That includes transportation, insurance, and everything else. Food, food, lodging, everything. Yes, three. And what do they do at camp? Swimming. Oh, my gosh, got everything out. They got boarding, swimming, canoeing,

arts and crafts, archery. Oh, a little bit of everything. Well, now, Mr. Nicolette, how can a mother or a father, if they decided to, get their boy in one of your clubs? All they have to do is come into one of our units, and we're looking on the telephone directory, you'll find us. Under what? Under Chicago Boys' clubs. I see, okay. And all they have to do is make out an application, fill out an application, and pay. And most of our clubs charge a 50 cents a year for children under a 15 years of age, a dollar a year for boys over that. Now, there was a gentleman here a little while ago that you wanted me to talk to. Oh, yeah, what was his name? Oh, yeah, what was his name? Mr. Shanauer, oh, sure. Where is he? Mr. Nicolette's going to go around looking for Mr. Shanauer. And we want to talk to him for just a few minutes, because he's connected with the boys' clubs. In the meantime, the ball game is still going on. You boys know what inning it is out there? It looks like the last half of the... The last half of the... The seven inning games. The seven inning games. The seven inning games. The seven inning games. The seven inning games. The last half of the six inning. All right, the game ought to

be over before long. We also have a club in Winter. Where? Winter, we go for two days. You go to the Winter Club. Where's the Winter Club? Winter Camp, right? Where is that? It's by William and Spade. It's a chemo. Camp chemo's name of it. What do you do in the Winter Time, boys? We play games. We work in a craft shop. And when we went to that camp, we met a guy named Chuck Tanner, the baseball player in the clubs. We met him there. Well, now, boys, what do you do? Are you boys going to go on the trip this summer? Are you going? No. You're going? This will be the first year I didn't go in four years, because last year I went all summer. I kind of my mom looked out there as a hostess. You were there all summer? Yeah. We'll see. Most of us ain't going this year, because we lost the championship in a little league a lot of years by going. Because then we missed our base, because that's where we lost. So you're going for the championship this year? Yeah, like we won last year. Mr. Shan Hours and here right now. Mr. Harvey is the director of Midwest Boys Club. How do you do, Mr. Harvey? Mr.

Harvey. Could you tell us your connection with the club, Mr. Harvey? Director of the Midwest unit of the Chicago Boys Club. Oh, I see. Well, tell us something about it. How do you get to get them organized? Get them into your clubs? You go out and recruit the boys? Well, we aren't in a very big set up yet. We inherited an old mansion at the corner of Sacramento in Washington, and we're just finishing a new gymnasium $200 ,000 unit. We'll be ready for this fall. This is your team out here today. So, yeah, over this first four years, we're just four years old. We haven't had to go look for boys, the boys are there, and they're pretty well filled with the club, but that's why we're expanding. Looks like you got a victory today. Well, these boys like baseball, and they're good players. They sure are. We like to win all of our most important concerns is get more boys playing. You're going to send some boys to camp? There'll be about 70 -75 boys in our club in campus summer, and one of the two week periods. Where are they going? Out to Winona, and Winona Lake, near Warsaw, Indiana. Well, that's nice down there, isn't it?

Beautiful. I like it, and I always want to go back. Are you going? No, I usually visit once during summer. I bet you'd like to go. Yeah, it'll be lots of fun. I'd like to go myself. Believe me. Nothing like a boys camp. I remember when I was a kid, it went to one several years, and it was a lot of fun. Oh, yeah. They have thrilling time, and the cars for the kids from the crowded sections of the city, it's nice to get out, and there's lots of room, and the trees in the water, and the interesting things to do. Okay, Mr. Harvey, thank you very much for talking to us, and a lot of luck with your boys' club. Thank you very much. Mr. Nicolay, it's time for us to close up shop here. We've run a completely out of time. I'm coming out here only, often nice for you to come out this way, and I'm looking forward to listening, to hear this thing on the air, and I'm sure the boys will be, too. They'll be listening. All right. First time we ever got a hand at the end of one of these broad kids. Seriously? Yeah, at least kids appreciate it. Well, we appreciate it, too. Thanks, boys. All right, all right. Thank you very much. And that pretty much wraps up the story of the Little Legs. And once again, I want to thank Mr. Nicolay for allowing us to come out and telling the story. We certainly

enjoyed it, and actually enjoyed coming out, and not only telling the story, but watching a pretty good ballgame. That's the story of the Little Legs of Chicago, and this is Hugh Hill speaking.