Little League

American  

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.

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Other Word Forms

• Little Leaguer
  noun

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Little League

The restaurant occupied a sprawling shopping center alongside an Olive Garden, a Cabela’s and a Costco, making it something of a regional mecca for homecoming dinners, birthday parties and Little League victories.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Little League said it had 1.5 million baseball players in the U.S. this year, compared with about 2.2 million the organization estimated in 2006.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

To minimize arm injuries, Little League instituted age-specific pitch-count caps and mandatory rest periods 20 years ago, but not all travel clubs abide by the rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The dispute between the city of Santa Fe Springs and the Metropolitan Little League has put the 65-year-old youth sports partnership in jeopardy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

He was at a banquet in honor of a Little League team of which his son Robert was a member.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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