Northlawn 6th-grader is baseball All-American -- Already a plethora of experience and LeBeau is just getting started

Northlawn 6th-grader is baseball All-American -- Already a plethora of experience and LeBeau is just getting started

A love of baseball has taken Streator's Cherokee LeBeau to many places around this great country, and success and now notoriety have followed him every step of the way.

The 11-year-old LeBeau, a pitcher and shortstop for among others the Plainfield Tornadoes baseball team, has been selected by Travelball Select to its 11U All-American Team, the first Illinois player ever to be so named.

That honor should come as no surprise. The teams on which he played from April to November ? including one out of Houston with three other all-Americans that won the Little Majors World Series at the Big League Dreams in Dallas ? went an amazing 109-11 in high-profile tournaments across the country.

"It was a surprise. I think going down to Texas with the best team in the country helped, but there was a lot of hard work that paid off," said LeBeau. "I know one player doesn't win a game.

Source: http://www.mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=446215

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