It wasn't all bad
Smartphones help Little Leaguers cross a language barrier
They didn't speak the same language, but it didn't matter — two young baseball players at the Little League World Series used technology to communicate.
Former ESPN anchor Bob Holtzman was at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on Sunday when he stumbled upon a familiar scene: Two boys glued to their phones. But it turned out they weren't focusing on a game or surfing the internet — the players, one from South Dakota and the other from the Dominican Republic, were using Google Translate to talk to each another. Holtzman tweeted that watching these kids form a new friendship was the "coolest thing" he saw that day.