Bradley lives outside Media, in Brookhaven

 Bradley lives outside Media, in Brookhaven

, and has coached three daughters in softball and his 21-year-old son, now an assistant on the team, for about 25 years. He doesn’t have any family on the team, but wanted to stay involved in youth coaching after his kids finished playing. He has coached members of this team since they were 10 years old — for years, their path to state championships was blocked by fellow Delco teams from nearby Aston — and they finally broke through at the tournament in Bristol.

“We’ve been running these kids into the ground for like three months now,” Bradley said. “It really paid off. A lot of parents were kind of like, don’t you think they need off? Don’t you think they need off the Fourth off July? We worked every day, every weekend. Other teams were taking off. No, we’ve got to put the work in.”

One extra perk, Bradley and the local kids should be able to attend the MLB Little League Classic in Williamsport on Aug. 20 between the Washington Nationals and hometown Philadelphia Phillies.