What Bryce Harper told Stella Weaver about moving to Tennessee at Little League World Series

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Stella Weaver happened upon a potential soon-to-be neighbor Sunday during the 2023 Little League World Series.

His name is Bryce Harper. He plays baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies. He happens to be a seven-time All-Star, a two-time National League MVP and the 2012 National League MVP.

Weaver, who plays for Nolensville, happens to be the 22nd girl to play in the Little League World Series, and the only one this year.

They crossed paths inside Howard J. Lamade Stadium, in the far reaches of the stands behind home plate — she in her yellow Southeast Region jersey and he in his red Philadelphia Phillies jersey.

Weaver, the girl who has spent a good part of the last week signing countless autographs and posing for countless selfies, held in her right hand a bright white baseball bearing the freshly dried ink of Harper's signature while the two posed for a picture a day before Nolensville was to face the Northwest Region winner from Seattle and two days after the team defeated Rhode Island.

"So me and Jace (Barney), we saw Bryce Harper and he talked to us," Weaver said not long after meeting him. "So, we're from (near) Nashville. He told us he's actually moving to Brentwood, which is where Jace lives, and I live very close to there.

"That's super cool. He talked to us, just some baseball. It was really, really cool."

A source told The Tennessean that Harper also told Barney's father he was moving to Brentwood. Harper had been expected to relocate to Knoxville after the 2023 season, according to a report last month from USA TODAY Sports. It wasn't immediately clear whether Harper, originally from Las Vegas, had plans to call both places home during his offseasons or just the Nashville suburb.

As for Weaver, she was excited but also looking forward to making her first pitching appearance at the Little League World Series.

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More than few MLB players call Nashville home, including Mookie Betts, an Overton High School graduate who in 2018 as a member of the Boston Red Sox became the first player in history to win an MVP, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, batting title and World Series in one season.

Harper and his Phillies teammates were visiting with Little League players in South Williamsport on Sunday ahead of their MLB Little League Classic game later Sunday night in neighboring Williamsport against the Washington Nationals.

Harper wasn't the first superstar with which Weaver crossed paths with in Pennsylvania. On Monday, former Chicago Cubs second baseman and Baseball Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg caught "Weaver fever."

On Sunday, so, too, did Bryce Harper.

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