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- Updated: August 20, 2016
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Michael Buczek Little League may not be representing the Mid-Atlantic Region in the Little League World Series, but about 25 of its players and league executives were nonetheless honored in Williamsport before Game 10 between Oregon and Rhode Island on Saturday afternoon.
Named in honor of police officer Michael Buczek, who was killed in the line of duty on Oct. 18, 1988 — the same night that fellow officer Christopher Hoban was killed — the league was established by Buczek’s father, Ted. Since 1989, it has served as a safe haven in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, where Buczek died at just 24. A New York City public school in the area also bears Buczek’s name.
“What the league was able to do was give us a pause here at the baseball field and really get to know the parents and the community,” said league president Johnny Moynihan, an NYPD sergeant who threw out one of two ceremonial first pitches before the game. “And they could get to …
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