#Big league dreams full

More than 3.1 million viewers watched Fox Sports’ broadcast of the game, the most-watched regular-season baseball game on any network this year.ĮSPN is on-deck and promised all the added features that make the game a more appealing watch to kids. The last one was a hit - Major League Baseball’s second “ Field of Dreams ” game last week came straight out of the cornfields of Dyersville, Iowa. The game is MLB’s latest experiment to try and attract new fans - and re-ignite the passion of lapsed ones - through offbeat settings.

We’ll see what kind of questions they have for us, what kind of cool stuff they have for us. “I heard some of the kids are going to be riding on the bus with us to the field,” Orioles outfielder Austin Hays said.

#Big league dreams full

The game is played at 2,366-seat Historic Bowman Field in Williamsport, just a six-mile trip from the complex where the Little League World Series is underway with kids full of big league dreams, many of whom will attend the game ready to mingle with today’s stars - and maybe talk Xander Bogaerts into a TikTok. Now Boston’s game-planning coordinator, the 50-year-old Varitek is headed back to where he burst through on the national scene when the Red Sox play the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday night in the fifth MLB Little League Classic. He led Altamonte Springs out of Florida to the ’84 United States championship, took Georgia Tech to the College World Series and, most notably, helped the Boston Red Sox win the World Series in 2004 and ‘07 as a tough and savvy catcher. It’s a high-intensive gathering of baseball fans.”įor most 12-year-olds, reaching the pinnacle of youth baseball is as good as it gets in a playing career. “The community, the people that go there to support that series in the final game, and all the games, is what makes it so unique.