Ten years later, Toms River still amazed  Ten years later, Toms
River still amazed  Little League World Champions Boulevard --
technically, New Jersey's Route 37 -- cuts through the town of
Toms River and stretches across eastern Ocean County, reminding
every passerby of a dozen 11- and 12-year-olds who once
represented half the town and half the alphabet.  The Toms River
East American All-Stars, winners of the 1998 Little League World
Series, were not the Toms River All-Stars, from the community's
other league, or the Toms River East National All-Stars, whose
last names went from K to Z. These were the A-through-J boys --
just one-quarter of Toms River -- too young to calculate their
fractional chance of beating Kashima, Japan, 12-9.  A year
earlier, reigning champion Taiwan pulled out of Little League,
saying it couldn't comply with rules restricting the area from
which it could draw players. That opened the door for a dozen
alphabetically limited kids -- the same group that plotted to
sneak out of the dorm