How to Use Little League in a Sentence

Little League

noun
Definition of Little Leaguenext
  • Played Little League over here at Wilshire Park, so this is our hood, too.
    — oregonlive, 3 July 2023
  • Maybe this can be adapted to your kids’ first bus ride/Little League/etc.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Scores of businesses were damaged, and the town’s Little League field and a new skate park were destroyed.
    — Lisa Rathke, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
  • That was the first time getting out of my little town of playing baseball just in Little League.
    — Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Their dad, Jack, coached many football teams — and our Little League baseball team.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Hey, Little League dads, make room for more female coaches like me.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Fathers and mothers playing catch with sons and daughters, and watching in the stands at Little League games.
    — Scott Miller, Twin Cities, 19 July 2024
  • And Posey is going to stand up out of the squat, stop taking foul balls to his mask, and go change some diapers and coach some Little League and live his life.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Now, my parents never came to one Little League game ever, once.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The victory arrived a mere five years after the Village first added girls softball to its Little League in 2017.
    — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The $250 monthly payments helped cover her mortgage and allowed her son, now 9, to play Little League Baseball for the first time.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Panama had long been part of the Latin American region for Little League but received its own bid last year.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In an ad for the stuff, ARod plays a Little League coach, who, after losing a bet has to trade places with an equipment manager.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • One of them is: It’s become almost impossible to be a Little League ump.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 June 2023
  • In 1995, a new rule meant the local Little League program needed to add a girls fast pitch softball league or risk losing its charter.
    — Carole Sharwarko, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Foster kids often miss out on Little League or music lessons.
    — Ana B. Ibarra, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The shooting happened near Little League baseball fields.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The weather also is expected to delay the start of seasonal play for many Little League teams across the region.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In a country that has just 60 baseball clubs and a limited Little League system, five new youth programs popped up this spring.
    — Ken Maguire, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
  • So, Richman sent around the 6,700-word piece, about two Little League dads with complicated pasts who took a deep rivalry way too far.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
  • That was a full-circle moment, for a city and a nation that might remember Sean best as the star on his hometown Little League squad, with his own father as coach.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
  • And then there are the coaches who take advantage of the shorter distance between bases in Little League by having players steal as the catcher throws back to the pitcher.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • His uncle Darrell coached his Little League softball team.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Over the summer, a Little League umpire, who referees football games in the fall, wondered out loud if there was even going to be a junior high season in 2020.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Snead said Little League should get more attention in the community.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2024
  • This grief group had no moderator and no rules other than those dictated by the Little League of America — and the human heart.
    — Teresa Strasser, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Playing in recreational leagues, such at Little League, often give your kids the same benefits as travel teams at these ages.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The Hickman Field complex also includes Little League fields.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The slugger’s most entertaining knock came in the fourth, when Soto and some careless defense turned a two-bagger into a Little League homer.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
  • Two club teams—think Little League for adults, with one team’s uniforms bearing the name of a local paint store—get together to play there one last time, and time itself becomes the very story.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024

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