Haddonfield, New Jersey Little League baseball player Marco Rocco was allowed to play Thursday night in his team's first state tournament game.

Haddonfield was down to its last out when Marco Rocco stepped to the plate Saturday night. The pitch came. Rocco blasted it over the left field fence with a full-circle crescendo to cap a week that brought this 12-year-old boy from the innocence of Little League baseball to a case study on sportsmanship and courtroom polarities.

The father of a boy suspended from participating in Thursday’s New Jersey Little League State Tournament because he flipped his bat after hitting a home run has sued Little League Baseball. The suit filed Tuesday in a New Jersey superior court seeks a restraining order that would allow his son to play in the 12-and-under