Tag Archives: little league world series
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10 Little League World Series Players Who Went On To Star In Sports Other Than Baseball
Every year during the Little League World Series, people do lists of all the players who have actually gone on to become Major Leaguers. But as I’ve already said, that’s kind of boring. You expect a lot of these kids to go on to become big league baseball players. After all, the teams that compete [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 8/20/12 — Will Lucas (LLWS No-Hitter)
Being called upon to pitch in a nationally televised elimination game is enough to make a Major Leaguer nervous. So one could only imagine the feeling going on in Will Lucas’ stomach when the 12-year-old righty was called upon to take the mound for Fairfield, Connecticut during their Little League World Series elimination game against [...]
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The 11 Guys Who Played In Both The Little League And The Major League World Series
Every year when the Little League World Series is underway, you’ll see lots of stories about former LLWS players who went on to become big leaguers. I thought about doing one of these lists for today, in fact, until I decided it was kind of boring. So instead I narrowed my focus and looked for [...]
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This Japanese Player At The Little League World Series Is The Next “Babe Ruth” (Video)
If you were to describe Babe Ruth, you’d probably say that he was an incredibly gifted baseball player that was much larger than the other players, and he was awfully effective both on the mound (94–46 record and a 2.28 career ERA) and in the batter’s box (714 home runs and a .342 career batting [...]
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Elaborate Home Run Celebration At The Little League World Series (Video)
At the risk of sounding really old, isn’t anyone teaching kids about a little thing called sportsmanship these days? At the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, the team from the Netherlands performed an elaborately choreographed celebration after a home run by Phayson Antonio. After smashing an opposite field long ball, Antonio rounds [...]
