The crack of a bat. A ball hitting a glove. The grunt following a pitch to home.
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You can hardly hear yourself think inside the indoor practice facility at Milwaukee's Beckum Stapleton Little League.
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But that's just the way they like it.
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On a Wednesday night in March, nearly 50 kids are crammed into the facility near downtown Milwaukee, trying out to be on one of the league's 20 teams.
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One of them is Matthew Duncan, whose favorite position to play is catcher. He started playing baseball when he was just 5 years old. He's now 12, and he considers himself a veteran in the Little League, which serves hundreds of youth on Milwaukee's North Side.
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