
Little League, big dreams: Mets, Mariners players as Little Leaguers
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created: Aug. 16, 2025, 1:01 a.m. | updated: Aug. 16, 2025, 7:23 p.m.
Check out images of some Mariners and Mets, including Cal Raleigh and Juan Soto, from their time in Little League and MLB.
And a few of them will make it ... as evidenced by all the Little League alumni in Major League Baseball today.
This year's MLB Little League Classic between the the Seattle Mariners and New York Mets will feature a number of MLB players who have played little league baseball in one way or another, either with local teams in their home countries or with Little League specifically.
In fact, Seattle manager Dan Wilson played in the 1981 Little League Baseball World Series with Barrington (Illinois) Little League.
ET -- let's take a look at "then" and "now" photos of notable players on each team that played little league.
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