Comments on: History of Little League Baseball and Softball https://www.thesportshistorian.com/history-of-little-league-baseball-and-softball/ sports history by Jim Weathersby Mon, 07 May 2018 19:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Jim Weathersby https://www.thesportshistorian.com/history-of-little-league-baseball-and-softball/#comment-42476 Mon, 07 May 2018 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.thesportshistorian.com/?p=311#comment-42476 In reply to Jean Tyler.

Thank you, Jean. I appreciate the comment. Clearly, my original date of 1984 was wrong. I found organized Softball Little League in 1974 but have not seen your 1971 reference. I would love a link to the newspaper article, if you still have it.

Thank you again!

Jim

]]> By: Jean Tyler https://www.thesportshistorian.com/history-of-little-league-baseball-and-softball/#comment-42473 Mon, 07 May 2018 16:01:12 +0000 http://www.thesportshistorian.com/?p=311#comment-42473 Softball Little League originate in a small village of New Berlin in 1971. We had over 80 girls participate along with coaches, sponsors, team shirts and umpires. There was quite a nice newspaper article written about us, I’m sure, because the Sport’s Editor has never heard of a Girls’ Softball League-the reason being because we pioneered it.

]]> By: Rec-Softball.com https://www.thesportshistorian.com/history-of-little-league-baseball-and-softball/#comment-3910 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:21:27 +0000 http://www.thesportshistorian.com/?p=311#comment-3910 Great article! Thank you for the recap of how Little League Baseball and Softball came into being and how they have grown over the decades. It’s easy to assume that these leagues have ‘always been’ because they are such an integral part of so many childhoods. Very interesting reading.

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