Technical Sgt. Don Halverson, a World War II veteran, celebrated his 102nd birthday this week!

A former Miami Springs Little League coach covered his face as he bonded out of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Saturday morning on nearly two dozen felony charges, most involving child sexual abuse material.

Javi Perez survived after a drunk driver struck him while coaching his son’s Little League baseball team in 2016. He wants to put his resilience to service with the Miami-Dade school board.

Little League has been hosting its World Series in Williamsport since 1947, yet it will be welcoming a new guest when the tournament starts Wednesday — Cuba.

Baseball is steeped in the tradition of fans wanting to jeer the umpire.

The coach for a Little League World Series player from Utah who seriously injured his head when he fell out of his top bunk in dorms at the world series complex says he has FaceTimed with the boy.

A 12-year-old Little League World Series player from Utah is in critical condition with what his family said was a head injury suffered when he fell off a bunk bed at the dormitory complex in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump recruited Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera to help mark baseball's Opening Day with a group of Little League players at the White House on Thursday. Riveras old team was in Washington to open up Major League Baseballs abbreviated season Thursday night against the defending champion Nationals. Trump, for his part, said he'd been invited to toss out the opening pitch on Aug. 15 at Yankee Stadium. The president praised Major League Baseball for moving forward. I think Major League Baseball is setting an example by playing to empty stadiums.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. Little League is offering youth baseball organizations a pathway forward as they eye a restart amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Little League canceled the 2020 Little League World Series and other championships because of the pandemic last month but remains hopeful a regular season may still be possible. Umpires would move from behind home plate to behind the pitcher's mound and game balls would be switched out every two innings. Toomey said he would sign his 10-year-old son up for baseball tomorrow because he believes it can be done safely. The best practices were released a week after Major League Baseball put together a 67-page proposal outlining how it could conceivably return to play this year.

Little League International, which announced the move, also canceled regional tournaments but said the events would return in 2021. By contrast, the NFL, the world’s most affluent professional sports league, generated roughly $16 billion in 2018, according to USA Today. Major League Baseball generated $10.7 billion in 2019 and the NBA nearly $8 billion in 2018, according to Forbes, so youth sports generated more money than those leagues combined. The owner of Michigan Elite Volleyball Academy in suburban Detroit, an organization that’s home to 150 youth volleyball teams and has produced numerous Division I college volleyball players over the years, Sack had been, as usual, making preparations for the club’s signature event. “You go from ramping up to this.”Cancellations of such big youth sports events have a serious trickle-down effect, too.

Alberto Ramos is accused of punching a Little League umpire in the face after a game. LAKELAND, Fla. - A Florida man was arrested Friday after he punched an umpire in the face following a Little League game, deputies said. According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, Ramos disagreed with a call an umpire made, so after the game Ramos went to the clubhouse to complain to the head umpire. Instead of leaving, Ramos said he would "kick his ass" and then punched the umpire in the face, deputies said. "Not only was he arrested, he's also been trespassed from the ballpark."