Williamsport hosts another vivid reminder of the Little League pipeline to the big leagues as the MLB Little League Classic brings the Seattle Mariners and New York Mets together on August 17 at Bowman Field. The event spotlights the journey from local Little League fields to the majors, with “then” and “now” visuals of players who started early and blossomed into MLB standouts. A notable thread is Mariners manager Dan Wilson’s 1981 LL World Series appearance with Barrington Little League, underscoring how LL roots thread through generations of professionals. The feature highlights a roster of notable LL alumni across both clubs, underscoring the durability of the LL-to-MLB link and offering fantasy-savvy readers fresh context on players who began in youth baseball and landed on the sport’s biggest stages.