Keener, the Little League CEO, said his organization’s overall 2016 numbers are slightly down, from 2 million kids in 2011 to approximately 1.9 million in 2016 (2017 numbers aren’t yet ...

MLB is leaning heavily on its Play Ball initiative to get kids excited about what baseball has to offer. Created in June 2015 by Commissioner Rob Manfred, Play Ball became a top priority in his ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Little League District 24 All-Star Tournaments are over this season. The Section 3 South tourneys ...

Ripken Experience about getting ‘kids playing baseball ... Forge Youth Baseball Complex, the memories of getting coached up by Hall of Fame shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. might last a little ...

As for Little League, which covers kids aged 4 to 18, about two million kids played in the U.S. last year, compared to about 2.5 million in 1996—an overall decline of 25%. The only growth in youth ...

A dispute over paperwork is keeping some young baseball players off the field this summer — and Windsor West Little League is ...

The number of players in the Southeast Region of Little League is down 43 percent since 2007. Many communities in metro Atlanta play in non-Little League programs. In some cases, those leagues thrive.

In the 1990s, Ken Schneider, 68, a retired attorney who grew up playing Little League baseball, organized the league with his wife, Mary, who is the league's secretary, and other neighborhood parents.

Baseball is the national pastime, but it’s a game that may need to find a way to reach the Black youth demographic. “There aren’t as many African American kids playing the game that I would ...

Greene, an electrician with Local 25, played baseball as a kid growing up in Wyandanch as part of a Police Athletic League program, which “kept us busy and out of the streets,” he said.

Randy Smith: Kids Playing Baseball Always Changes. Tuesday, July 7, 2020; ... Our oldest grandson and his Fury 10U squad will play in the USSSA "Elite 32" World Series in Melbourne.