Little League History

25 of the Greatest Baseball Movies - Like "Sandlot" (which gave us that famous quote "You're killing me Smalls")

Baseball Humor

• Who's on First by Abbott and Costello.
• Yogi Berra Quotes or "Yogisms" like "It's deja vu all over again" and "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
• Best of Texas Ranger's Adrian Beltre (3rd Base) and Elvis Andruss (SS).
• Casey at the Bat as told by Garrison Keillor of Prairie Home Companion.
• Baseball vs Football as told by comedian George Carlin.
• MLB Bloopers.
  
• "There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.” Casey Stengel, renowned manager. HOF 1966.
• Baseball slang.

Great Moments in Baseball

• Willie Mays and “The Catch” - 1954 World Series Game 1.  HOF 1979.
• Jackie Robinson steals home plate (1:45 into the video) - World Series 1955. Brooklyn Dodgers vs NYY.
• Babe Ruth pointing to the seats for his home run - 1932 World Series Game 3 NY Yankees vs Chicago Cubs. HOF 1936.
•  “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”  Lou Gehrig's farewell speech at Yankee stadium July 4, 1939. HOF 1939.
•  Top 100 Greatest Players 

MLB Hall of Fame

• In Cooperstown, PA. It's a 5-hour car trip from Baltimore that's worth the visit with tours of the archives.
• Overnight Sleepovers in the Hall - Children ages 7-12 and their parents/guardians can sleep in the Hall of Fame Plaque Gallery among the plaques of baseball’s greats. Includes access to the Museum’s public areas after-hours, special hands-on programs throughout the Museum, and a late-night snack and movie in the Bullpen Theater.
  

Negro Baseball League (NBL)

• Negro League Baseball History
• Negro Baseball League Museum - In Kansas City, MO.
• Baltimore Elite Giants from 1938-1950.  Team members include Hall of Famers Roy Campanella and Leon Day
• NBL and MLB Merge in 2021.

• First Women in Baseball as found in Wikipedia and MLB
• Rachel Balkovec - 1st female manager of a minor league team, Tampa Tarpons of the Yankees organization
• Genevieve Beacom - 1st female to pitch in a professional game in Australia
• Notables:
  • Maria Pepe - First girl to play in Little League Baseball
  • Julie Croteau - First woman to play men's NCAA college baseball
  • Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert - First woman in baseball, strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in a MLB game at Eagles Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, April 1, 1931
  • Effa Louise Manley - First woman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Co-owner of the Negro Leagues Baseball team Newark Eagles with her husband Abe Manley from 1935-1946
  • Pam Postema - First female MLB umpire.
  • Sherry Davis - First full-time MLB female stadium announcer. Worked for the San Francisco Giants from 1993-1999.

Girl's and Women's Baseball Teams

• All American Girls Professional Baseball League - Their exhibit is at the MLB HOF museum.
• American Girls Baseball
• Nation’s First Travel Girls Baseball Team - By NBC News
• DC Girl's Baseball Team - All girls team for 18yo and younger.  The teams travel locally and regionally to compete in all-girls and co-ed baseball tournaments. They practice weekly with female professional coaches from the Eastern Women’s Baseball Conference. The 13U Team won the 2017 Baseball for All National Girls Baseball Championship Tournament in Rockford, IL and defended their title as a 14U team in 2018.