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In 1999, Little League Baseball launched its "Urban Initiative," which led to the launch of inner city Little League programs across the United States, including the Jackie Robinson West Little League. Jackie Robinson West (JRW) was the second Little League formed from the Urban Initiative to make it all the way to the Little League World Series.
The first Khoury league was baseball league founded by George M. Khoury in 1934. He wanted an organized baseball league for his sons that allowed them to play the game with their own age groups. As George G. Khoury Sr. later recalls in his book, Brothers, Bombshells, and Baseball, “Dad knew many people, was a salesman and an organizer ...
Little League Baseball and Softball (officially, Little League Baseball Inc [1]) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization [2] [3] based in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States, that organizes local youth baseball and softball leagues throughout the United States and the rest of the world. Founded by Carl Stotz in 1939 as a three-team ...
The National Adult Baseball Association (NABA) and the Men's Senior Baseball League (MSBL) are the two largest organizations, sponsoring leagues and tournaments for a variety of age groups (e.g. 18+, 28+, 38+, 48+, 55+, etc.). Both leagues play regular-season games, playoffs and host tournaments on both a regional and national level.
A little over a year ago I drove to McCabe Park to pick my son up from baseball practice and as I waited, I chatted with a man in the car next to me.
A Little League home run is a play in baseball during which a batter scores a run during their plate appearance with the aid of one or more errors committed by the fielding team. It is so called because the play is presumably evocative of how young children in the process of learning how to play the sport frequently commit fielding and throwing ...
The Tournament of State Champions (TOSC) is an annual Little League Baseball tournament featuring 8-10-year-old and 9-11-year-old state champions. The 8-10 tournament was first held in August 2005 at Mitch Stadium, located upon the town borders of Ceredo, West Virginia and Kenova, West Virginia. The 9-11 tournament was first held in August 2010 ...
Representing Canada. Pan American Games. 2015 Toronto. Team. 2019 Lima. Team. Evan P. Rutckyj (born January 31, 1992) is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher for El Águila de Veracruz of the Mexican League. He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 16th round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft .