Month: August 2019

By Ethan Roy Weeks of Little League® International play, featuring thousands of games, culminated with seven local Little League® teams earning the title of World Champion. You are invited to remember and re-visit the Championship Summer of 2019. Senior League Baseball Central East Maui LL (Wailuku, Hawaii) vs. Liga Pariba LL (Willemstad, Curaçao) LL — […]

Little League® International remembers Al Haynes, a Little League West Region volunteer and umpire for 30 years, who officiated games in the 1978 Little League® Baseball World Series in Williamsport, Pa. He was 87. Mr. Haynes, a native of Paris, Texas, and resident of Seattle at the time of his death, was thrust into the […]

By Will Desautelle and Ethan Roy With two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning, Curley Martha, the hero for Curacao against Japan in the International Championship, stepped up to the plate against Louisiana pitcher Egan Prather with his team trailing, 8-0. Prather began the at-bat having thrown 76 pitches on the afternoon. After […]

Eastbank (La.) Little League from River Ridge, Louisiana, was crowned the 2019 Little League Baseball® World Series Champion Saturday afternoon at Howard J. Lamade Stadium in South Williamsport, Pa., on the strength of an 8-0 victory over Pabao (Curaçao) Little League. The team from the suburbs of New Orleans jumped out to an early 1-0 […]

Based on their incredible display of sportsmanship throughout the Little League Baseball® World Series, Cacique Mara Little League from Maracaibo, Venezuela, has been named the recipient of the 2019 Jack Losch Little League Baseball World Series Team Sportsmanship Award. “Throughout the entire World Series, the players, manager, and coaches of Cacique Mara Little League have […]

Chofu (Japan) Little League defeated Central East Maui (Hi.) Little League, 5-0, in the Little League Baseball® World Series Consolation Game on Sunday Morning at Howard J. Lamade Stadium. Japan struck early, with three runs in the first inning. The team from Chofu City Little League scored two more runs in the fifth to secure […]

By Will Desautelle After an offensive onslaught in which Louisiana scored all nine of its runs in the fifth and sixth innings, it seemed all but certain that they would clinch the state’s first-ever trip to the Little League Baseball® World Series Championship. But then Hawaii rattled off five runs in the bottom of the […]

By Ethan Roy After falling 4-0 to South Korea in the second round of the 2019 Little League Baseball® World Series, Curaçao’s bats woke up, as the Caribbean Region Champions from Pabao Little League outscored their opponents 22-6 in three straight elimination games. In order to topple the perennially talented Japan Region Champion, that offensive […]

June 6, 1939, 80 years ago, Carl Stotz gathered some of his friends and neighbors, and about 30 boys in the west end of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on a baseball field that had been scaled down just for them for the first-ever Little League® game. It gave those children the chance to learn the game and, […]

Eastbank (La.) Little League survived a late-game rally by Central East Maui (Hi.) Little League to be crowned the Little League Baseball® World Series United States Champions on the strength of 9-5 victory. After four scoreless innings, the team from River Ridge, La., got things started in the fifth, puting five runs on the board. […]