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t was a pretty darn big hit,” Bradley said.

  t was a pretty darn big hit,” Bradley said. Maybe somewhere actress Kate Winslet — who needed months to master the mush-mouthed Delco dialect of “youse” and the “Iggles” in the HBO hit “ Mare of Easttown” — was celebrating. Media — part of a cluster of towns outside of Philly in Delaware Country affectionately known as Delco — is part of the 20-team Little League World Series set to start Wednesday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The last Pennsylvania team to win the Little League World Series was Levittown, in 1960. Bradley spoke Friday night with his team in the midst of a pizza and soda bash at the team hotel in Connecticut. There was no time to plan a ritzy rally in the current home of comedian Wanda Sykes. The Media team is not permitted to return home — the team boards a 7 a.m. bus Saturday headed straight for Williamsport. “What about my car? Can’t I drop my car off,” Bradley said with a laugh. “They said no. Leave your car here and we’ll arrange somebody to drive it back h...
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Are youse ready for Delco? Suburban Philly team is headed to the Little League World Series

  Are youse ready for Delco? Suburban Philly team is headed to the Little League World Series PHILADELPHIA (AP) —  The manager of the suburban Philadelphia Little League team that needed just one hit — a walk-off, two-run home run — to advance to the Little League World Series had the same question on his mind as anyone who has stepped foot in the home of WAWA convenience stores and wooder ice: Is the Little League World Series ready for Delco? “I don’t think they know what’s coming,” said a laughing Tom Bradley, who leads the team from Media, Pennsylvania. “Delco is like it’s own little world. I don’t think they’re ready for this accent.” The Media team, from about 20 miles southwest of Philly, defeated the team from Northwest Washington D.C., 2–0 on Friday in the Mid-Atlantic Regional championship game in Bristol, Connecticut. Trevor Skowronek’s two-run homer in the seventh inning was the only hit for Media in the game.
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