Tag: Umpire

The volunteer umpires for the 2022 Little League Baseball® Metro, Mid-Atlantic, and New England Region Tournaments and the 2022 Little League Softball® Mid-Atlantic and New England Region Tournaments, set to take place at Breen Field of the A. Bartlett Giamatti Little League® Leadership Training Center in Bristol, Connecticut, have been announced. Below is the listing […]

  The volunteer umpires for the 2022 Little League Baseball® Great Lakes and Midwest Region Tournaments and the 2022 Little League Softball® Central Region Tournaments, set to take place at the Little League® Central Region Headquarters Complex in Whitestown, Indiana, have been announced. Below is the listing of volunteer umpires who will take the field […]

With the return of all seven Little League® World Series events in 2022, Little League International is excited to announce the more than 90 volunteer umpires who are set to take the field for these iconic events this July and August. “The impact of not having the World Series events in their full capacities the […]

Zachary Frattaroli is just 18 years old. A freshman at Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) University. He loves the game of baseball. But he never was the best player on his team. Still, he has something over his teammates: He was the most knowledgeable on every field he ever stepped on. “They called me Coach Frat,” said Zachary. […]

In March 2022, Jennifer Woof took the field as the only female among a class of 24 volunteers participating in Little League® International’s week-long umpire training academy at its complex in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. However, being the only female attending the rules and mechanics training made her even more determined to get better at something she […]

On Sunday, October 3, 2021, in a contest between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs, Veteran Major League Baseball (MLB) Umpire Gerry Davis, 68, made history by umpiring in his 5,000th career game. Mr. Davis has become closely affiliated with the Little League® program in recent years. First, through his involvement with the Little […]

By Will Desautelle One afternoon this past winter, Little League Baseball® umpire, Kelly Dine, went outside to get the mail, something she seldom does. As she returned inside, with her husband and three sons in the kitchen, she flipped through a pile of letters before finding a thin envelope from Little League®. “I know through […]

Taegen McCoy is 16 years old and a sophomore at Northern High School in Dillsburg, Pa. In many ways, she’s a typical high schooler. She enjoys playing the viola in the orchestra and competing on the women’s tennis team, and won the title of Farmer’s Fair Queen. One year ago, she added another activity to […]

Annually, Little League® International holds a spring training for Little League Umpires. At the 2019 school, nearly 40 game officials from across the United States and Canada, made the trek to Williamsport, Pa., including 10 from various Canadian provinces. “We don’t have a regional school (in Canada), which makes it even more important that we […]

The Little League® Europe and Africa Region officially announced its selection of umpires for the 2019 Europe and Africa Regional tournaments. In addition to announcing the selections, the region also hosted a regional training clinic for 28 students from nine different countries across the region, marking the first umpire clinic in several years for the […]