PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The youth baseball team whose star 13-year-old female pitcher and performance in the Little League World Series drew a wide following received a champion’s treatment in a parade Wednesday in downtown Philadelphia.
Thousands of office workers and city residents lined a major thoroughfare to cheer on the Taney Dragons and their pitcher Mo’ne Davis, who made it onto the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Manager Alex Rice told reporters Wednesday that he was thrilled with the tremendous support the team received at the parade.
“It was very impressive,” Rice said of the parade. “Who turned out is what I’m so taken aback by. You start in town with office workers and it just got better and better as it went down Broad Street.”
The Dragons represented the mid-Atlantic region in the World Series. They won their first two games before being eliminated by eventual U.S. champion Jackie Robinson West from Chicago and the Las Vegas’ Mountain Ridge.