Little League

Trademark.

1. a baseball, softball, and T-ball league consisting of teams of boys and girls 4 to 18 years of age, founded in 1939 in Williamsport, Pa., and now international in scope, supported by business, fraternal, or other institutional sponsors.

Other Word Forms

• Little Leaguer noun

Example Sentences

But in the rural towns of South Carolina and Tennessee, it is the community banks that sponsor the Little League, lend to Main Street businesses and make the American dream possible.

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I became a fan of the Dodgers because I was on the Angels Little League baseball team and I was number five that made me a Freddie Freeman fan so I also became a dodger fan too.

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Todd and Sheen have been pals since they bonded through baseball, first on Little League fields in Malibu, then on the Santa Monica High School team, then while taking batting practice in Sheen’s posh indoor batting cage, then while putting on power-hitting displays at local high school fields and even Dodger Stadium.

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Just this summer he helped raise $10,000 for Santa Monica Little League by hosting an outdoor screening of “Little Big League” and tapping into his vast contact list of pro athletes and A-list entertainers to attract silent-auction items.

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Even in the most wholesome times in his life, as a little league baseball player and school theater kid, he would get a similar “butterfly in the stomach feeling” from the performance of it all.

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