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The Little League World Series
Published or Updated August 13, 2018
Location: United States
Sport: Baseball
Level: Amateur
Sport: Baseball
Level: Amateur
Event Type: Team Championship
First Held: 1947
Next Up: 8/16/2018-8/26/2018
First Held: 1947
Next Up: 8/16/2018-8/26/2018
When and Where: every August in Williamsport, PA
In a valley between the Appalachian foothills and the West Branch of the Susquehanna River sits Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the home of one of America’s rites of passage, Little League World Series, where the world’s best little league teams come to prove their meddle at the ripe young age of 11 to 13.
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- In 1975, Little League Baseball banned all non-US teams from the World Series. After considerable criticism, the ban was rescinded the following year
AgeScandal - Danny Almonte was 14 years old and was playing in the 11-12 year old division
TV - First broadcast was in 1963 on ABC Sports
Victories - In total, a representative team from the United States has won the Little League World Series title 37 times
Non-US Team - In 1958 a team from Monterrey, Mexico, became the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series
MLB ties - less than 1 percent of all Major Leaguers actually played Little League.
Founding - The Little League program itself was founded by Carl E. Stotz, an oil company clerk, in 1939 in Williamsport.
