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I don’t know who was more excited--me or the group of 12-year-olds surrounding me.
After two years of fundraising and countless hours of practice, we had finally made it to the front gate of The Ripken Experience - Cal and Billy Ripken’s Dream Baseball Park in Myrtle Beach, SC.
We were all signed up and paid (thank God) to compete in the weeklong national baseball tournament on fields nicer than we had ever played on.