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5th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest The American Experience
The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat

"This was the play that scored the winning run in the bottom of the last inning," says Weiderhaft of a championship Little League game between crosstown rivals in Orange County. "I focused my camera through the chain-link fence" to capture the moment of both thrilling victory and stunning defeat.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 06.2007
Date Uploaded: 06.2007
Photo Location: Santa Ana, California, United States of America
Copyright: © Rhonda Weiderhaft
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