Chicago's Little League champs return as heroes (Yahoo Sports)

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The ballpark gleams, exactly as the home of the Little League World Series national championship team should. Free of graffiti and absent so much as a kid's initials carved in the grandstand benches, Jackie Robinson Park is outfitted with a digital scoreboard and mechanical pitching machines. It sits in a tidy neighborhood of brick one-story homes and manicured lawns on Chicago's South Side. While the words ''South Side'' are often shorthand beyond Chicago for gangs, shootings and poverty, the people who live here see a more nuanced picture.




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