--- title: Mo ne Davis and Cash Money: A LLWS Opening Round for the Ages description: In which we also learn that a 12-year-old named Trey Hondras talks to girls before baseball games for good luck canonical: https://time.com/3120211/little-league-world-series/ author: Eric Dodds article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-15T22:30:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:30.130Z og:title: Mo ne Davis and Cash Money: A LLWS Opening Round for the Ages og:description: In which we also learn that a 12-year-old named Trey Hondras talks to girls before baseball games for good luck og:url: https://time.com/3120211/little-league-world-series/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32ee3ebcb8549e82/69869fc9d0b6f2b909305b85/mone-davis1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4500 og:image:height: 2531 og:image:alt: Mo'ne Davis delivers in the first inning against Nashville, Tenn. during a baseball game in United States pool play at the Little League World Series tournament in South Williamsport, Pa., Aug. 15, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mo ne Davis and Cash Money: A LLWS Opening Round for the Ages twitter:description: In which we also learn that a 12-year-old named Trey Hondras talks to girls before baseball games for good luck twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32ee3ebcb8549e82/69869fc9d0b6f2b909305b85/mone-davis1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Has Been the Greatest Start in Little League World Series History > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Eric Dodds](https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Aug 15, 2014 10:30 PM UTC  Mo'ne Davis delivers in the first inning against Nashville, Tenn. during a baseball game in United States pool play at the Little League World Series tournament in South Williamsport, Pa., Aug. 15, 2014. Mo'ne Davis delivers in the first inning against Nashville, Tenn. during a baseball game in United States pool play at the Little League World Series tournament in South Williamsport, Pa., Aug. 15, 2014. Gene J. Puskar—AP by [Eric Dodds](https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Aug 15, 2014 10:30 PM UTC You may not have been aware that one of summer’s great institutions, the Little League World Series, is now underway. It kicked off yesterday in Williamsport, Penn. (as always), and has already introduced us to a host of memorable pre-teen characters. First and foremost, there is this young man: > [](https://twitter.com/stevebraband/status/500030421665849344) As you can see, his name is Trey Hondras, which is inarguably one of the greatest names to ever be named in human history. Trey Hondras is the sort of man you could imagine leading a cutting-edge biotech firm or winning the World Heavyweight Boxing championship or perhaps even leading an invasion of Mars if such a thing were to ever become necessary. Equally important, we know that this particular Trey Hondras will undoubtedly live up to his name because his bio states the following: “Talks to girls before game for good luck.” This 12-year-old was going to be on national television for the first time in his life, and chose that as the way to introduce himself to the world. Not just that he talks to a girl before games for good luck, but _girls_, as in multiple. He is a man without fear and will certainly be leading all of us to intergalactic supremacy sometime in the next half-century. Just when you were recovering from Thursday’s awesome name hangover, you’re hit with this gem during today’s Pennsylvania-Tennessee game: > [](https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/500375215499915266) Blake Money is a pretty great name, and he’s already pitching in the Little League World Series. Problem is that they also list his brothers’ names in his bio: “Mo’ Money” and “Lo’ Money.” And then there’s the final brother, and you can probably already guess how this story ends: > [](https://twitter.com/CMIslesBlog/status/500388544368492544) Not only is his name Cash Money, but this kid clearly knew he was going to be on national TV and came correct. Cash Money indeed. (Though I’d sort of rather prefer that this is just how he dresses every day, and when his parents ask him not to, he just looks at them and says, “C’mon, you had to know it would end like this.”) Lastly and most crucially, however, there’s Mo’ne Davis, a 13-year-old girl pitching for the Pennsylvania-based Taney Dragons. She threw a complete-game shutout against Blake Money’s Tennessee squad, allowing just two hits and no walks while recording eight strikeouts. > [](https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/500385202838192128) In short, the Little League World Series is the best, even if there’s no way that the rest of the tournament can top the last 24 hours. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3120211/little-league-world-series/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3120211/little-league-world-series/"},"headline":"This Has Been the Greatest Start in Little League World Series History","datePublished":"2014-08-15T22:30:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:30.130Z","description":"Mo'ne Davis threw a complete-game shutout, Trey Hondras divulged that he talks to girls before games for good luck and we learned about a real person named \"Cash Money\"","url":"https://time.com/3120211/little-league-world-series/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","Baseball"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32ee3ebcb8549e82/69869fc9d0b6f2b909305b85/mone-davis1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Dodds","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32ee3ebcb8549e82/69869fc9d0b6f2b909305b85/mone-davis1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mo'ne Davis delivers in the first inning against Nashville, Tenn. during a baseball game in United States pool play at the Little League World Series tournament in South Williamsport, Pa., Aug. 15, 2014.","caption":"Mo'ne Davis delivers in the first inning against Nashville, Tenn. during a baseball game in United States pool play at the Little League World Series tournament in South Williamsport, Pa., Aug. 15, 2014.","creditText":"Gene J. 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