Little Big Men (2010)

In 1982 Cody Webster and a small group of friends from Kirkland Washington sat anxiously in a dugout waiting to take the field for the championship game of the Little League World Series Their focus was just about what youd expect from any 12yearold hit the ball throw strikes cross your fingers and then maybe maybe youll win Adults in the stands and watching from home saw a much broader field of play The memories of American hostages and a crippling oil crisis were still fresh the economic malaise of the late 1970s still lingered and the new President was recovering from an assassination attempt even while confronting new threats from the Soviet Union Meanwhile back on that tiny baseball field in Williamsport Pennsylvania no American team had won a true international Little League World Series Championship in more than a decade When the Kirkland players rushed from their dugout that day they stepped onto a much bigger field than the one they saw