How many adults did this kind of stuff as a kid: Find a vacant lot, claim it as your turf, and play ball all day. Or, worse - like me, they just played ball in an elderly widow’s neighbor’s yard until she threatened to call the cops.

Some teens in Greenwich did just that - they recently converted a town-owned plot of land and made it their own Wiffle Ball sandlot. They built it, and the kids are coming to play.

But the Riverside Lane neighbord aren’t too thrilled. They want their field of dreams, complete with a 12-foot high Fenway-esque Green Monster in left field, taken down, and the kids to scram.

And the neighbors have the right to do that. The plot of land is not designated as a park, and it’s not not the kids’ property to build on. Back in the days of The Little Rascals, or even Fat Albert, kids could get away with building club houses on public property and get away with it.

So now we have the question: Should the kids have to rip down something that they built on someone else’s property? Well, if I added on to my house without going to Planning and Zoning, the City of Bridgeport would make me tear my work down.

And if the Town of Greenwich lets the field stand, will it spawn a town on regional Wiffle league with stadiums build on vacant lots all around? Who knows?

I can understand the neighbors being upset - you have a quiet neighborhood, and suddenly it’s swarmed with kids and cars. But these kids could be doing a lot worse things this summer, don;t you think?

Creativity and exercise has been replaced by the X-box and the Wii (OK, you get some fitness with the Wii). So I think it’s great that these kids are doing what they are doing. Nut I also think they’re learning an important civics lesson through all this: Get permission and go through the proper channels before you start a project.

And the civics lessons have begun. One of the teens involved, recent Greenwich graduate John Agostino tells me there’s a meeting Tuesday night at the Cos Cob Fire Department. The public may attend the 7 p.m. meeting.

Six years after being drafted in the third round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Atlanta Braves, former Joel Barlow righty Charlie Morton is going to the big show.

The injury-depleted Braves announced they will call Morton up from AAA Richmond in time to start the game Saturday against the Angels in Anaheim.

Morton, who is 5-2 and has the second-best ERA (2.05) in the International League, will take Tom Glavine’s spot in the rotation. Glavine suffered an elbow injury Tuesday night against the Chicago Cubs and was placed on the DL.

Morton spent much of 2007 pitching out of Double-A Mississippi’s bullpen after working primarily as a starter in his first five pro seasons. He moved back to the rotation late in the year and led the Mississippi to its lone win in the Southern League playoffs.

He followed that with an excellent stint in the Arizona Fall League with Peoria (4-1 2.57 in six games) and was added to Atlanta’s 40-man major league roster.

Morton’s curveball was rated the best in the Atlanta system in 2005 by Baseball America.

But he also spent five seasons playing Class A ball, and was close to being considered a classic draft bust. Click here and read this column by Clarion-Ledger columnist Rick Cleveland.

It’s been a busy weekend for the CIAC, with state champions to crown in a ton of sports.

And after a cool spring weather-wise, mother nature went crazy yesterday, blistering athletes with temperatures in the 90s. Which meant in-season conditioning became a major factor for all the athletes involved.

Here’s a quick roundup of winners, losers (though to be politically correct, they are runners-up), and more, including clips from the local sports media…

FRIDAY:
Westhill wins Class LL Baseball Title
I slammed Westhill pitched T.J. Hickey’s mound antics in a post a few weeks ago. He’s recovered nicely and, on the mound, became the go-to guy a lot of us saw during the football season. As he kept Masuk batters in check, Bobby Migliazza and Greg Smith led the offense in a 12-1 win up at Palmer Field in Middletown.

The clips: Stamford Advocate game story; Stamford Advocate sidebar; Connecticut Post.

Also Friday: Darien takes volleyball title; Staples wins again in Class L.

SATURDAY
The links:

• Masuk phenom Rachele Fico shuts down Naugatuck: Connecticut Post; New Haven Register.
• Law upsets Ludlowe for Class L baseball title: New Haven Register; Connecticut Post.
• Danbury takes Division II girls lacrosse championship: News-Times; News-Times sidebar.
• Prefect ending for New Fairfield lacrosse team: News-Times.
• Prep tops Ridgefield in 3OT to take Class L lacrosse title: Connecticut Post.
• Darien girls defeat Wilton again for girls lacrosse championship: Stamford Advocate.
• Blue Wave Boys make it a lacrosse sweep: Stamford Advocate.

Sitting around on a lazy Sunday, surfing the Web? Me too… Here’s some local sports articles you may find interesting.

In a first of what is possibly a weekly feature at LocalSportsFeed, here are some of the top press clippings of the week, pertaining to Fairfield County-based teams, athletes, and sports people:

• Connecticut Post: Myers-Keitt rebounding following injury
• Connecticut Post: T.J. Robinson signs with Long Beach State
• The Advocate: 50 years later, Darien LL players remember Series trip
• The Advocate: Despite prosthesis, Stamford’s Scott is a lacrosse standout
• Greenwich Time: Sullivan about to take center stage at NFL Draft
• News-Times: Bobcat star makes it official
• Westport Minuteman: Local hockey coach tabbed by USA Hockey
• Wilton Villager: The Fountain of Pele - Ancient Warriors are Over-40 and still kicking
• The Stamford Times: John Nash Column — Meet Miss Vander Meer

LocalSportsFeed was featured in today’s edition of The Stamford Times, a weekly newspaper owned by The Hour.

The article, written by corespondent Joe Ryan, focuses on the evolution of the FCIAC Football Blog into a Website with a focus on sports in Fairfield County.

LocalSportsFeed is owned by Tim Parry, a Bridgeport-based sportswriter.