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A somber march for Martin Richard

Updated: April 28, 2013, 5:15 AM ET
By Scott Barboza | ESPNBoston.com

DORCHESTER, Mass. -- The whirl of fire truck sirens and blaring of bagpipes drowned out the usual hum of the Southeast Expressway traffic on Savin Hill Avenue. Saturday was opening day for the Savin Hill Little League and, as is tradition, the ballplayers walked in a procession from the Little House on East Cottage Street along a roughly one-mile parade route to McConnell Field.

It was a patriotic scene, straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting -- a portrait quintessentially American ...

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