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Forty American teams have won the Little League World Series — from the Maynard Midgets of Williamsport, who beat Lock Haven 16-7 in the first tournament in 1947, to Lake Mary, Florida’s extra-inning win over Taiwan in 2024. They span 15 states and eight decades, and the list doubles as a map of American youth … Read more

Thirty-eight times in Little League World Series history, the trophy has left the United States. Since Monterrey, Mexico’s Industrial Little League broke through in 1957 behind Angel Macias’s championship-game perfect game, international teams from six countries — Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Venezuela, and Curacao — have beaten the American champion in the final, including … Read more

California has won the most Little League World Series championships of any U.S. state — eight titles, from El Cajon in 1961 to El Segundo’s walk-off in 2023 — and no other state is particularly close. Connecticut, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey sit next with four apiece, and in all just 15 of the 50 … Read more

The United States has won the most Little League World Series championships — 40 of the 78 played since 1947 — but the raw number hides the real story. Ten of those titles came before 1957, when no international team had ever won, and since the tournament went truly global the U.S. share is barely … Read more

The Little League World Series has crowned a champion in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania every summer since 1947 — 78 championship games in all, with only the pandemic year of 2020 missing from the record. The list below is the complete history: every final, every score, and every runner-up, from the Maynard Midgets’ 16-7 win in … Read more

Hank Aaron was selected to 25 All-Star Games — a number so large it needs an asterisk to be believed: for four seasons (1959-62), baseball played TWO All-Star Games a year, letting the era’s giants stack selections at double speed. Aaron, Willie Mays (24), and Stan Musial (24) tower over the list partly because of … Read more

Do MLB players get paid extra for making the All-Star team? The league’s own check is famously modest — but the honest answer is that an All-Star selection is worth serious money anyway, just through side doors: contract bonuses that pay six figures the moment the roster is announced, arbitration leverage that compounds for years, … Read more

The MLB minimum salary in 2026 is $780,000 — the floor beneath a sport whose stars make $70 million, and the actual paycheck for a huge share of every roster. Roughly a third of the players on Opening Day rosters earn at or near the minimum, because baseball’s pay system makes almost everyone wait years … Read more

When a big league hitter squares up a fastball, the ball can leave the bat faster than cars travel on the highway. That speed has a name: exit velocity. It is one of the most important modern measurements in baseball, telling us how hard a ball was hit, how far it will travel, and how … Read more