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100 1  Van Auken, Lance. 
245 10 Play ball! :|bthe story of Little League Baseball|h[Hoopla
       electronic resource] /|cLance and Robin Van Auken. 
264  1 [United States] :|bBookBaby,|c2013. 
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520    Bestselling history of Little League Baseball and the 
       World Series now available on KINDLE. The eBook is updated
       through 2013! Includes a new chapter on John Grisham's 
       movie, "Mickey," the Danny Almonte scandal, Tee Ball on 
       the South Lawn, Pitch Counts and Arm Injuries, Child 
       Protection Act, ESPN and the new World of Little League 
       Museum. "'Play Ball!' is a delightful walk down the 
       storied history of Little League Baseball. For those of us
       who played the dreams of your youth, it brings back mighty
       memories. For those of us reluctant adults who still dream,
       it's a wonderful reminder of what might have been." ̃ John
       Grisham, bestselling author "Little League Baseball was 
       such a huge part of my life. As a kid and as a father, the
       memories are, in fact, so thick that I have to brush them 
       away from my face. Thank God for Little League Baseball 
       and how it's managed itself." ̃ Kevin Costner, actor, 
       director "It's funny: after 40 years, I can't remember 
       much else about a lot of the boys I grew up with, but if 
       you give me one of their names, I can usually remember 
       what Little League team he played on." ̃ Dave Barry, 
       Pulitzer Prize winning columnist. ABOUT THE BOOK Play 
       Ball! is the remarkable story of Little League Baseball, 
       from the first diamond in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to 
       the playing fields of Venezuela, Japan, and Poland. On any
       given spring evening, 360,000 children around the world 
       can be found on the dusty mounds and grassy fields of a 
       Little League field. With more than four million people 
       playing or volunteering in Little League games every year,
       Little League is the institutional rite of passage into 
       the quintessential American pastime. Little League 
       Baseball began in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1938, 
       when Carl Stotz, an oil company clerk, agreed to a game of
       catch with his young nephews-who were too young to play 
       organized baseball. He recalled how it felt to be left out,
       and promised to think of a way for the boys to have a 
       league of their own. With the help of neighbors George and
       Bert Bebble, Stotz created a three-team league. After 
       being turned down by fifty-six businesses, Carl finally 
       convinced a lumber company, a dairy, and a pretzel maker 
       to sponsor the teams, for $30 each. On June 6, 1939, the 
       first Little League Baseball game was played at Park Point
       in Williamsport. Play Ball! charts Little League's history
       from the earliest days and shows how, in many respects, 
       its history parallels America's history: isolation in the 
       beginning; rapid expansion; a civil war of sorts, followed
       by reconstruction; struggles over civil rights and gender 
       equity; and foreign entanglements. A microcosm of American
       society, Little League reflects, and is affected by, 
       cultural, political and historical trends. Today, Little 
       League is played on 12,000 fields in every U.S. state and 
       in 103 other countries on six continents. Little League 
       also sanctions play in softball, Tee Ball, and baseball 
       for disabled children-called the Challenger Division. The 
       Little League Baseball World Series, played annually in 
       Williamsport, is watched by crowds of 40,000 each year in 
       person, and by more than ten million on ABC's Wide World 
       of Sports. The authors were given full access to the 
       Little League Baseball archives and have created a 
       comprehensive history. Play Ball! contains appendixes 
       including winners of all Little League Baseball and 
       Softball World Series, a year-by-year history of Little 
       League, countries in Little League, and lists of some of 
       the famous people who played the game as children, 
       including Kevin Costner, Mark McGwire, and George W. Bush.
       Play Ball! will interest parents, former players and 
       coaches, fans of Little League Baseball, general baseball 
       enthusiasts, and anyone who has ever picked up a ball and 
       bat. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
610 20 Little League Baseball (Organization) 
650  0 Baseball for children. 
650  0 Electronic books. 
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