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• Under Proclamation 3407, President John F. Kennedy officially proclaimed the first National Little League Week in 1961 “in recognition of the national and community benefits resulting from Little League activity.” The commemoration was designated for each year thereafter for the week beginning the second Monday in June.

• Although there were baseball leagues for preteen children in the 1880s, they weren’t particularly popular and eventually phased out.

In the 1920s, the American Legion established a baseball program for teenage boys, one that still continues today.

• In 1938, a 28-year-old Williamsport, Pennsylvania man named Carl Stotz took steps to create an organized baseball program for pre-teen boys. He began by gathering his nephews and other neighborhood boys to play games and experiment with field measurements and equipment and to come up with rules. In addition to playing ball, Stotz’s goal was to teach young boys “sportsmanship, fair play, and teamwork.”

• Stotz approached local businesses for help with sponsorships and donations, asking $30 as a sponsorship fee to pay for equipment and uniforms.

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LITTLE LEAGUE (cont.)

• Stotz then solicited the help of neighborhood parents to help with organization and supervision. By the summer of 1939, their new league had three teams and a board of directors made up of eight volunteers. After conferring with the local community, Carl Stotz christened the group Little League.

• Carl enlisted the help of two brothers, George and Bert Bebbie to help him with coaching the three teams. Carl managed the Lycoming Dairy team, while George took over Lundy Lumber, and Bert coached the Jumbo Pretzel team.

• Opening day for the inauguration of Little League was June 6, 1939, played in a vacant lot near the outfield fence of Williamsport’s Bowman Field.

Bowman Field was the home of the city’s minor league baseball team, a ballpark that had opened in April of 1926, with construction costs of $75,000.

The park remains one of the game’s oldest ballparks.

• The first game was a matchup between Lycoming Dairy and Lundy Lumber, with Lundy coming out on top, 23-8. Lycoming Dairy did manage to come back to win the season title. All of the season’s remaining games were played on the same vacant lot, moving to a new playing site the following year, when a second league was formed in Williamsport.

• Lundy Lumber was in the news again in 1942 when their pitcher Ed Yonkin pitched Little League’s very first no-hitter, leading the team to victory over Stein’s Service.

• All of the leagues were located in Pennsylvania until 1947, when Hammonton, New Jersey established theirs.

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• By 1947, there were more than 90 Little Leagues.

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LITTLE LEAGUE (cont.)

• More than 300 leagues had been formed by 1949, and in order to ensure that the name “Little League” was protected, Carl Stotz took steps to incorporate the organization. In October, 1950, Little League was formally incorporated.

• Little League expanded outside the continental United States in 1951, when leagues were formed in British Columbia and the Panama Canal Zone.

By this time, there were 776 individual leagues.

• The Little League World Series moved to television in 1953, with sportscaster Jim McKay commentating on CBS. Broadcasting great Howard Cosell described the play-by-play action on ABC Radio.

• One of the Little Leaguers in the 1954 World Series was John Wesley Powell, better known as Boog.

This member of the Lakeland, Florida, team went on to a notable career with the Baltimore Orioles from 1961 to 1977, during which time, the Orioles won four American League pennants and two World Series championships. Boog, a four-time All-Star, was the AL’s batting leader with a .606 percentage, as well as the MVP in 1970.

• Until 1974, only boys aged 8 to 12 could play Little League ball. Rules were revised and restrictions lifted for girls’ participation in time for the 1974 season.

• The 1957 Little League World Series was won by a non-U.S. team for the first time. The team from Monterrey, Mexico captured the title, with pitcher Angel Macias throwing a perfect game, also a first in a championship final. The following year, the team made history again when they became the first to win consecutive World Series championships. That team included a young Hector Torres, who would go on to play in the Major Leagues for nine seasons for five different teams, including the Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, and San Diego Padres. ...continued

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• Europeans joined the World Series in 1960, with a Berlin, Germany team as its first entry. By that time, there were more than 27,400 teams across the globe.

• It wouldn’t be a surprise that baseball greats Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter got their start on a Little League team. But how about those who went on to the Pros in other sports? Baseball players turned football greats include former Miami Dolphins Chad Pennington, whose Little League team made it to the quarterfinals of the 1991 World Series, and the 1980 NFL MVP, Cleveland Browns quarterback Brian Sipe, whose 1961 team took the World Series title. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the son of a MLB pitcher, played baseball until his junior year of college, when he switched to football.

• Some Little Leaguers turned to hockey, including Stanley Cup and Olympic champion Chris Drury, whose Trumbull, Connecticut, team won the World Series Championship in 1989. Before his 18-year pro hockey career, NHL forward Ray Ferraro played in the 1976 World Series.

• The NBA’s all-time leading scorer, Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul Jabbar received his New York City team’s sportsmanship award when he played Little League as a youth.

• How about some other famous Little Leaguers?

Musicians Bruce Springsteen, Jason Aldean, and Luke Bryan all played in a league. Kevin Costner gained fame in the 1989 baseball film “Field of Dreams,” but long before, he was playing ball in Santa Paula, California, in the 1960s. Before they teamed up on “The Office,” actors John Krasinski and B.J. Novak played on the same team in Newton, Massachusetts.

• The junior division of Little League, ages 8 to 12, plays on a field two-thirds the size of a professional baseball diamond. Two members of the ninemember team must be under 11 years old, and the number of 12-year-olds is limited to seven. Their games are six innings rather than nine.

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• When wool is dyed before it is spun into yarn, it keeps its color much longer. Thus, the expression “dyed in the wool.”

• A small spot behind the ears of newborn animals is the last spot on the hide to dry after birth. So anyone who is still “wet behind the ears” isn’t very mature yet.

• In the 1500s the French played a game similar to backgammon that was called “lourche.” The player who was falling behind in the game was “left in the lourche,” today known as being “left in the lurch.”

• In the first century B.C., the Parthians used a new battle ploy. They would turn away from the enemy, feigning defeat. But as they fled, they would turn around and shoot arrows at their pursuers. The maneuver was called a “Parthian shot” which today is known as “a parting shot.”

• In some parts of England, “dander” meant anger, so “to get your dander up” was literally to become angry.

• Mustard has always been popular, but often the mustard on the market was of poor quality or had been adulterated. This led to the phrase “to be the proper mustard” which has evolved into “it doesn't cut the mustard.”

• At harness races held at local county fairs, the horses were sometimes too eager to start the race and would often break ranks and head down the track before the race began. It was important that the riders be able to keep their horses under control. This resulted in the phrase “hold your horses.”

• Witches on secret errands for the devil would depart from their homes on a broomstick after dark so they wouldn't be detected. This gave us the expression “flyby-night.”

• In the 1600s when craftsmen finished making a pitcher, they filled it with water to see if it held water. Nowadays we speak of an idea that “doesn't hold water.”

• A century ago shirts were not as well fitted as they are today, and often a nice looking shirt would tend to restrict the movement of the arms somewhat. Therefore when a fist fight was imminent, the first order of business was to remove the shirt to have better swinging power. Today when someone gets antsy we tell them to “keep your shirt on.”

• When folks want to hide the fact that they're laughing, they cover their mouth with their arm, resulting in what is known as “laughing up their sleeves.”

• In the 1500s one's property boundary would be indicated by a line cut by a plowshare across the field. Now that's where we “draw the line.”

• In the days of knights in shining armor, some knights would go from town to town offering themselves and their lances for hire. They were the first “free lancers.”

• Beasts of burden and other animals have historically been led about by means of a ring in the nose to which a leash is attached. Hence the phrase, “lead by the nose.”

• When a chicken is placed on a butchering block, it will naturally stick its neck out, making it easier for the butcher to cut its head off. Therefore it's pretty dangerous to go around “sticking your neck out.”

• In days of old, carpets were only put on the floors in rooms where the gentry resided. The only time a servant would walk on a carpet was when they were being “called on the carpet” to be reprimanded.

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• On June 22, 1775, Congress issues $2 million in bills of credit. Known as "Continentals," the bills lacked the required rendering of the British king. Instead, some notes featured likenesses of Revolutionary soldiers and the inscription "The United Colonies."

• On June 26, 1892, Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck is born. Her novel "The Good Earth" (1930), describing peasant life in China, became an international bestseller and was translated into 30 languages. Buck wrote 80 novels and books.

• On June 25, 1915, the German press publishes a statement addressing the German use of poison gas.

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• On June 23, 1927, the Sioux County Pioneer newspaper of North Dakota reports that President Calvin Coolidge will be "adopted" into a Sioux tribe at Fort Yates. At the Sioux ceremony, photographers captured Coolidge, in suit and tie, as he was given a grand ceremonial feathered headdress.

• On June 21, 1956, playwright Arthur Miller defies the House Committee on Un-American Activities and refuses to name suspected communists. Miller's defiance of McCarthyism won him a conviction for contempt of court, which was later reversed by the Supreme Court.

• On June 24, 1975, an Eastern Airlines jet crashes near John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing 115 people. The Boeing 727 was brought down by wind shear during severe thunderstorms. Only seven passengers and two flight attendants survived the fiery crash.

• On June 27, 1985, after 59 years, the iconic Route 66 passes into history when officials decertify the road and vote to remove all its highway signs. Measuring 2,200 miles, the "Mother Road" stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, passing through eight states.

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• In the late 1990s, two researchers identified 85 different ways to tie a tie. They subsequently came out with a book called “85 Ways to Tie a Tie.” Of the 85 knots, 13 knots are "aesthetic" knots because they are symmetrical. Of those 13, four are commonly used, and the other nine are seldom used.

• About 85% of the ties worn today are tied with a common knot called the four-in-hand, named after coach drivers who were trying to control the reins of a team of four horses. Another common knot used on ties is called the Windsor knot, named after the Duke of Windsor, probably because he used the knot a lot (but not because he invented it).

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• In 1998, the Netherlands’ 73-year-old Prince Claus, husband of Queen Beatrix, was hosting South Africa president Nelson Mandela. They attended a fashion show together in Amsterdam.

Prince Claus applauded President Mandela’s casual style of dress. Suddenly he yanked off his navy blue tie and threw it to the ground at his wife’s feet, declaring it “a snake around his neck.” He immediately received a standing ovation for the deed. In reporting the incident that evening, a TV anchorman also yanked his tie off before the cameras. So did the sportscaster as he gave the soccer scores. Suddenly a revolution was underway, a phenomenon dubbed “claustrophilia.” Thousands of businessmen across the Netherlands followed the lead of their Prince Claus and discarded their ties. The Prince dubbed his deed “The Declaration of Amsterdam.” Although his act sparked an open-necked fashion craze among Dutchmen, the Prince soon resumed wearing his tie. He used a Windsor knot ...continued until his death at age 76.

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DIFFERENT TYPES OF TIES • In the 1600s, ladies who drank wine would protect their fancy dresses with a lace hanky wrapped around their neck like a bib and tucked into their neck. Sipping wine was called bibbing and the lacy neckerchief was called a tucker. Nowadays when you put on your best bib and tucker, you are referring to the olden days of bibbing tuckers.

• There is a horse racetrack near Berkshire, England called Ascot. The high-fashion men who frequented the racetrack took to wearing a silk or satin scarf around their necks which became known as an ascot.

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• Victor Cedarstaff was a silversmith in Arizona in the 1940s. He went out on a round-up chasing wild horses and his hat kept blowing off. He took the hatband and silver buckle off of his hat and slung them around his neck, so if he lost the hat for good he would still have the band and the buckle. Well, once his cowboy buddies got a look at what he had done, they loved the look.

As a result, the bola tie was born. It basically consists of a leather string that loosely circles the neck and passes through an ornamental buckle at the throat. Victor patented the fashion in 1959. It was named the bola (or bolo) because it resembles the lengths of rope, also called a bola, that Argentine cowboys use to snare game or lasso cattle. In 1971 the Arizona legislature named the bola the official state neckware.

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