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lit·tle league

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. little leaguenoun

    a commercially sponsored baseball league for players between 8 and 12 years of age

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  1. Little Leaguenoun

    an organization that sponsors and organizes baseball and softball leagues for children

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  1. little league

    Little League Baseball and Softball (officially, Little League Baseball Inc) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization 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 league in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and formally incorporated on October 10, 1950, Little League Baseball encourages local volunteers to organize and operate Little League programs that are annually chartered through Little League International. Each league can structure itself to best serve the children in the area in which the league operates. Several specific divisions of Little League baseball and softball are available to children and adolescents ages 4 to 16. The organization holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code.The organization's administrative office is located in South Williamsport. The first Little League Baseball World Series was played in Williamsport in 1947. The Little League International Complex hosts the annual Little League Baseball World Series at Howard J. Lamade Stadium and Little League Volunteer Stadium, and is also the site of the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum, which provides a history of Little League Baseball and Softball through interactive exhibits for children. Many Major League Baseball (MLB) players played in Little League.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of little league in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of little league in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of little league in a Sentence

  1. James Caan:

    I had great, great times as a Little League coach, people were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, ‘What about your creative juices?’ Coaching is creative because you could take a kid who thought he wasn’t any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn’t have to wait six months for them to put music to it.

  2. Jason Kander:

    There's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes with it, i'm coaching a little league game tonight, and I think about the people who I worked with in the Afghan government and the Afghan military who are probably staying in their houses.

  3. David Carter:

    That is really unlikely, but I think we'll see added pressure now on youth leagues, high schools and even college football, when the mother of a Pop Warner( Little League) player sees that, Little League gives them something else to talk about over the dinner table.

  4. Dave Belisle:

    When you start putting a team together for that reason and that reason only, you lose sight of what you're playing here. You're playing Little League baseball.

  5. Little League International:

    We value our relationship with Major League Baseball and its efforts to expand opportunities for youth baseball and softball, and the best thing that Little League International can do for Major League Baseball and the entire baseball community is to teach children how to play the sport by the rules and with a high level of sportsmanship.

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