In 1947, Mr. Stotz and the first local Little League Board of Directors, decided to organize a tournament for all Little League programs (there were 17) and called it the National Little League Tournament, later to be known as the Little League Baseball® World Series.
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Fifteen years later, in 1974, Mr. Stotz’s “Little League Baseball for Boys” became Little League Baseball and Softball as girls were welcomed into the program, and Little League Softball® debuted.
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Junior League, Senior League and Big League baseball--the upper levels of Little League Baseball that have players ranging in age from 13 to 18--play seven inning contests with a game official after five innings, or four and a half with the home side in the lead.
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In 75 years, the “idea” of Little League, devised in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, by Founder Carl E. Stotz in 1938, with its first season in 1939; has rewarded players, families, volunteers and communities with impactful life lessons centered around the games of baseball and softball.
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In Little League and other lower levels, a regulation game consists of just six innings. The game is official if four innings have been completed, with three and a half innings comprising an official game if the home squad is leading when the game is called for whatever reason.
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In 1959, after 12 Little League Baseball® World Series tournaments had been played on the small field at Brown Memorial Park in Williamsport, the tournament (and the headquarters of Little League) moved five miles east from its original location and across the West Branch of the Susquehanna River to South Williamsport.
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The distance between bases varies at the different levels of Little League Baseball. In the lowest level, which is called tee ball, the bases are just 45 feet apart, while at the Little League level the bases are 60 feet apart. In the upper echelons of Little League the bases are the normal 90 feet apart.
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“Those are the kids I’m seeing every day in my operating room.”. Little League Baseball imposed strict per-game pitch limits five years ago, but Andrews said he performed about seven times the number of arm operations on young pitchers that he did 15 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/sports/baseball/debate-grows-over-how-to-protect-young-pitching-arms.html
In 2007, the first year of the Little League pitch restrictions, Tyler Richards and Kyle Cotcamp logged many innings as their Hamilton, Ohio, team reached the World Series. They also pitched for a travel team. Two years later, Richards had Tommy John surgery.
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As the result of the program ’s remarkable worldwide expansion , and Little League International ’s initiative to broaden the opportunity for children to participate in the Little League Baseball World Series , a second Little League Baseball® World Series stadium , Little League Volunteer Stadium , was opened in 2001 ; and the tournament field was ...
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how many innings in little league?
There are six innings in little league. There are six innings in a little league.