VanAuken
Play Ball! The Story of Little League Baseball® by Lance and Robin Van Auken is for anyone who plays, manages, coaches, umpires or volunteers for Little League. The story of Little League Baseball® is filled with noteworthy visitors, interesting facts and fantastical moments, and is retold in “Play Ball,” the best-selling history of Little League and the World Series, which has been updated as an eBook through 2013 series in time for the Little League Baseball® jubilee anniversary. New content includes a new chapter on author John Grisham’s movie, “Mickey,” the Danny Almonte scandal, Tee Ball on the South Lawn, pitch counts and arm injuries, child protection policies, ESPN and the new $4 million World of Little League Museum.
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Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Dave Barry Recalls
Introduction
Chapter One: A Man's Game, a Boy's Game
Chapter Two: From a Lilac Bush
Chapter Three: Carl Stotz Keeps His Promise
Chapter Four: The World Discovers Little League
Chapter Five: Little League's Civil War
Chapter Six: Reconstruction
Chapter Seven: Little League Crosses the River
Chapter Eight: Changing Times
Chapter Nine: Girls, Girls, Girls
Chapter Ten: Dynasty from the East
Chapter Eleven: Into the Twenty-First Century
Chapter Twelve: Play Ball!
Appendix: A Capsule History of Little League, and other interesting facts and figures