The day began for Westport Little Leaguers today with a quick visit to the Westport Historical Society and then it was on to Yankee Stadium to be honored by the New York Yankees. Many Westporters also made the trip. Some highlights from the day’s events. Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com and contributed photos

Yankees great and Hall of Famer Dave Winfield greets and poses for a picture with Westport Little Leaguers today in front of the Yankee dugout at Yankee Stadium. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com photo

Westport Little Leaguers enter Yankee Stadium today where they were honored by the Yankees for their Little League World Series successes.The crowd began cheering when they realized who the young ball players were. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

The Wiele family of Westport was among those making the trip to Yankee Stadium today to honor the Westport Little Leaguers. Posing for a photo outside the Stadium are Craig and Ali Wiele with children Charlie, 8, and Maggie, 6. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Members of the Westport Little League World Series team stopped off a the Westport Historical Society today before heading to Yankee Stadium where they were being honored by the New York Yankees. The team posed with the Gault Field Little League original scoreboard from the field on Imperial Avenue. Bill Gault said that it was placed there in 1951 and was removed in the late 1980s when the ball park was replaced by a housing development. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Bill Meyer, a member of Westport’s Representative Town Meeting (RTM), congratulates the boys and girls Little League teams for their recent successes at tonight’s RTM meeting. Meyer said he has been a board member of the Little League in Westport for more than three decades. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Westport’s Little Leaguers showed the Westport flag today as they marched in the Newtown Labor Day parade. Contributed photo

Westport’s Little League World Series team gets set to march in today’s Newtown Labor Day parade. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

Westport Little Leaguer Harry Azadian, who proclaimed his ambition to be an ESPN SportsCenter anchor while in Williamsport, got the feel of the anchor desk Friday with Sara Walsh when he and his teammates visited the ESPN studios in Bristol. (See more photos of the visit here.) The Little League team will make another public appearance Monday in the Labor Day parade in Newtown. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) ESPN photo