Massapequa Coast head coach Roland Clark celebrates his team's success and talks about preparing for the Little League World Series The Little League World Series, a youth sports spectacle in summertime America, crowned its first champion on this day in history, August 23, 1947.
The Maynard Midgets, a team from Williamsport, Penn., the host city for each Little League World Series, beat Lock Haven, Penn., before an estimated 2,500 fans to capture the first crown. "It took temerity to call this first event a World Series, since all but one of the teams were from Pennsylvania," Sports Illustrated reported on the 50th anniversary fo the Maynard title in 1997.
The lone outlier among the 12 teams in the first Little League World Series was a club from Atlantic City, N.J. CHILDREN WHO PLAY TEAM SPORTS TEND TO HAVE BETTER MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES THAN KIDS WHO DON'T: STUDY "But within 15 years teams from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia would come to Williamsport to vie for baseball glory," according to the same story.
Little League baseball was founded in Williamsport by Carl Stotz, an oil company clerk, in 1939, according to LittleLeague.org.