Little League Rules Index Now Available as an iOS App

By on February 13, 2013 in Announcements

I’m pleased to announce that, in addition to the traditional printed version, the 2013 Rules Index is now available as a mobile app. This app was developed in conjunction with Silver Bay Technologies, whose support is gratefully acknowledged, and is available through the Apple App Store. It supports iPad®, iPhone® and iPod Touch® devices running […]

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Little League Rules Index for 2013 is Ready

By on January 26, 2013 in Announcements

I’m pleased to announce that the 2013 version of the Little League Rules Index is now available for download. Kevin Hunter’s Little League Rules Index for 2013 For those of you with smartphones, I’m currently working on an electronic version of the index – I hope to have both iOS and Android versions of it […]

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2013 Little League Rule Changes

By on January 26, 2013 in Rule Changes

Below is a brief summary of the 2013 Little League rule changes. Note that not all of these changes were listed in the front of the rulebook – Little League listed what they considered the “significant” rule changes there, but didn’t mention some less obvious ones. Multiple Locations Previously, the rules frequently used the term […]

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2012 Little League Baseball Eastern Regional – Day 9

By on August 11, 2012 in Personal Experiences

I was assigned the left-field line for the New England championship game.  Some people might be upset about that, but Jeff Holliday, who had the plate, is a solid umpire, and I had gotten three plates (two on TV).  For this game, our original crew of Mid-Atlantic umpires was re-united, with one exception – Rick […]

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2012 Little League Baseball Eastern Regional – Day 8

By on August 10, 2012 in Personal Experiences

Semi-final day for Mid-Atlantic.  I was assigned the plate for the second game, between Maryland and Delaware.  The game was scheduled for 3:00 on ESPN, but there was a big weather front approaching.  Helen drove up in the morning, and we were watching the 11:00 game between Connecticut and Vermont on TV when the announcers […]

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2012 Little League Baseball Eastern Regional – Day 7

By on August 9, 2012 in Personal Experiences

Today began the elimination round.  Two of the six teams in each tournament had now been eliminated, leaving the top four to battle it out for the right to go to Williamsport. The New England semi-finals were played today, with NESN broadcasting them.  The Mid-Atlantic semi’s would be tomorrow, with ESPN taking over.  ESPN’s headquarters […]

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2012 Little League Baseball Eastern Regional – Day 6

By on August 8, 2012 in Personal Experiences

This day did not start out well for me.  Since my crew had the early two games the previous day, we didn’t hang around the ballfield for the second two.  As we were leaving, we had been told that we would be doing the New England games again, which were scheduled for 5:00 and 8:00.  […]

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2012 Little League Baseball Eastern Regional – Day 5

By on August 7, 2012 in Personal Experiences

Tuesday was the beginning of TV coverage.  The New England series, which my crew had been working, was going to be covered by NESN through Friday.  As it turned out, I was assigned the plate for the first game, which was to go off at 10:00. TV games are rather different from normal Little League […]

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2012 Little League Baseball Eastern Regional – Day 4

By on August 6, 2012 in Personal Experiences

Because of the rainouts on Sunday, Monday promised to be a long day.  We were fortunate that the schedule worked out that none of the teams who were rained out on Sunday were scheduled to play on Monday.  As a result, we could do the two lost games as well as the rest of the […]

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2012 Little League Baseball Eastern Regional – Day 3

By on August 5, 2012 in Personal Experiences

The schedule changed on Sunday to give my crew the earlier games.  The weather did not look promising right from the start – the news was predicting thundershowers in the afternoon.  Al Erdmann had the plate for the 11:00 game, and I was down the left field line.  This turned into our second one-run game, […]

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