"Tampa Bay Rays right fielder Matt Joyce remembers all too well the jitters of opening day at the Little League field.

"I remember being nervous, terrified," he said during a break in his Sweet Swingin' Baseball Camp, at North Brandon Little League, in late January.

Joyce, who played at North Brandon as a youngster, returned for a second year to get the kids pumped up for opening day, now just 10 days away.

"This is awesome, to get these kids out here," said Joyce, a graduate of Armwood High School in Seffner and Florida Southern College in Lakeland. "They are getting to see faces up close that they normally see on TV.""