Quote Originally Posted by Tim_T View Post
Elwood is talking about the Valley Sports Little League team from Louisville that won the whole thing. One of their two big stars, Aaron Alvey, spent some time out here in Shepherdsville a couple of years ago. At the Bullitt County Detention Center for drug charges!
I played at Valley Sports when I was a kid...I'm not 100% sure but I think Valley Sports has been around since the 50's.

I remember when they won the world series...it was back in 2001 or so (somewhere in there)....anyway I remember that Alvey kid, he was a full grown boy if memory serves me correctly, he definitely looked like he was bean fed. Some people at the time was questioning either his age or the age of another boy on the team. Of course you're going to get that anytime anything good happens in sports, someone is always questioning something or someone.

It was a big deal...they had a parade starting at PRP high school and went on down Greenwood Road to Dixie Highway. Had one Corvette convertible in the parade for almost every player to ride in, and if it was a Vette then it was a rag top muscle car from the 60's/70's. There was tee shorts and hats made up and everything else. Lots of people turned out for the parade, it was a bigger deal to the community than it was to the boys, or so it seemed like to me anyway. What I remember most about it all was the boys riding in the convertibles looked like they'd just as soon not have a parade, looked like they didn't know what all the fuss was about. They looked like boys wanting to get their time in the spot light over with and start hanging out with their buddies again.

To bad about the young man in the detention center....sure hate to hear that.