Thousands turns out to welcome home Boerne Little Leaguers

It rained on their parade .... but that wasn't going to stop BoerneNation from welcoming home its Little League World Series heroes.

Boerne baseball fans -- and probably others who'd never seen a baseball game before last week -- packed the Hill Country Mile Monday to see the Boerne Little League team return from its adventure-of-a-lifetime in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

While there, the dozen 10-to-12-year olds put Boerne on the national -- and international -- map as they played their way to the U.S. Little League World Series championship. The wins ended there, as Boerne fell to eventual world champion Florida, but that did not diminish what these kids accomplished in their two weeks in Pennsylvania.