Swanson: Does a Hollywood ending await Dodgers’ Jack Flaherty?

Jack Flaherty’s story has so many elements of a classic coming-of-age sports movie that you almost feel like you should be able to predict the ending.

The best player on the “Sandlot” growing up to play for the Dodgers? It being set in the Valley, a la “Karate Kid” and “Bad News Bears”? The backdrop being a famously competitive Little League that produced TV stars like Tom Selleck and All-Stars like Jack McDowell, that was dominated for a spell by a pitcher who damn right threw like a girl...