PARTICIPATION IN SCORING ASPECT IS STRICTLY OPTIONAL SO FEEL FREE TO FIND THE CACHE AND WATCH ALL THE ACTION FROM THE GRANDSTAND.
Welcome to the 2019 home run derby! Every Saturday morning a new cache will be released. After it is published you will have roughly a week to find it and select a slugger to represent you in that week's edition of the home run derby. Select one player and include his name in your log. The number of home runs he hits the following week (starting the Friday after cache publication) is your score; don't worry, we will handle all the scoring. The series will be cumulative points from April through September, with a week off over the All Star break.
The "catch" is every player must be unique, so FtF has choice of any player, second to find will have second pick and so on. The cache hiders will also be playing so the cache owner will select fifth each week.
This is WEEK 11 of the series (11 of 24). All scoring will take place Friday, June 14th through Thursday, June 20th. Participation in the derby is strictly optional so feel free to find the cache and watch all the action from the grandstand. Game on!
Bring your own pen.
Some Fun Facts about Little League Baseball
How did the World Series get started?
The first Little League Baseball World Series was played in 1947 at Original Field at Memorial Park, Williamsport. The Little League program itself was founded by Carl E. Stotz, an oil company clerk, in 1939 in Williamsport.
In the first Little League Baseball World Series, all the teams except one were from Pennsylvania. At the time, Little League only existed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. A Williamsport-area team (Maynard Midgets) won the first Series. Within a few years, word spread about Carl Stotz’s program, and Little League was being played in all 48 states. The first Little Leagues outside the 48 states were in Panama, Canada, and Hawaii, in 1950.
Little League Baseball has always been integrated by race. Major League Baseball did not become integrated (in its modern era) until 1947.
Girls were first allowed by rule to play Little League Baseball in 1974 (although the first girl to actually play Little League did so in 1950 in Corning, N.Y. – Kathryn “Tubby” Johnston).
To date, 12 girls have played in the Little League World Series. The first, Victoria Roche, was in 1984. She played for the team that represented Brussels (Belgium) Little League.
One woman has coached a team in the Little League World Series: Kathy Barnard, Lynn Valley Little League, North Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1993. Betty Speziale of Dunkirk, N.Y., was the first woman to umpire in the Little League World Series, in 1989. In 2002, Flora Stansberry of Seneca, Mo., became the first woman to umpire behind the plate in the Little League Baseball World Series Championship Game.
United States teams have won the most Little League Baseball World Series championships, with 28, . Taiwan is next, with 17, the most recent in 1996 (Fu-Hsing Little League of Kao-Hsuing, Taiwan).
Teams from 23 countries/territories and 38 U.S. states have advanced to the Little League Baseball World Series in its 59-year history. Countries that have won the Little League Baseball World Series are Curacao, South Korea, Mexico, Venezuela, Japan, Taiwan and the United States.