Little Leaguer - July

The 2012 Little League Baseball and Softball International Tournament will feature 81 televised games in various Divisions of play throughout the month of August.

For the first time in the 66-year history of the Little League Baseball World Series, a team from Africa will be in the field.

On an evening earlier this spring, Braeden Swilley, a catcher for the White Sox in the East Marietta (Ga.) Little League, showed everyone at the game what sportsmanship and compassion are.

Judy Watts, 56, a volunteer in the Laguna Hills (Calif.) Little League, was diagnosed with a cancerous cyst in Aug. 2010. Read her story, and how she came to be recognized as Little League's Mom of the Year.

Except for a few years of his life when he was attending college, Greg Hodges has been associated with Little League Baseball and Softball all his life.

Jason Ardan, an 11-year-old Little Leaguer from Scranton, Pa., has been named the recipient of the Robert H. Stirrat Little League Baseball Camp Scholarship.

Southwest Forsyth Little League from Clemmons, N.C., and Rhode Island District 2 from Portsmouth, R.I., will be representing more than 30,000 Challenger players and 900 leagues worldwide when their teams take the field at this year's LLB World Series.

Through the Little League website, anyone can enjoy the play-by-play, and review the game statistics, of all eight Little League World Series and several Region Tournaments.

Little League International has provided a series of tournament-related materials for use by local leagues and districts.