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There's nothing ordinary about Chase Utley's swing. In fact, sometimes it even looks a little unnatural.

It was a football game. OK, it wasn't the best football game of the year. But it sure wasn't the worst.

The Brockville and District Baseball Association is concerned about its future in the Ontario Baseball Association .

The voices belonged mostly to N.F.L. executives, N.F.L. doctors, N.F.L. players and United States congressmen.

Mark Teixeira swings at a pitch near his eyes for strike three. Chase Utley makes a wild throw into the stands.

A surplus of rain in the past few weeks put a major damper on development of the Little League Southeastern Regional headquarters in Warner Robins.

Nick Jackson Rogue River Press Little League Baseball could be over for Rogue River youth.

Raymond Bremner is the 14th person arrested and charged in Operation MedScam. A former boys baseball coach is the latest to be charged in an illegal prescription drug distribution ring .

The city is stepping to the plate to help Grand Terrace Little League. The City Council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency, agreed Tuesday to request bids for the design and construction of a city-owned baseball field.

Sure, President Barack Obama has a lot to do. We're still not out of the woods economically, and there's that health care thing still bouncing around, but can't the guy find five minutes to meet with Chula Vista's boys of summer? Sunday will be the two-month anniversary of the team's 6-3 victory over Chinese Taipei in front of 30,000 fans .

The adults, as they were prone to do, sat around the table in a cluttered room above the concession stand hashing out the matters that accompany running a Little League organization of more than 800 players.

Each board member serves a three-year term and Fitch is one of three new members beginning their term on the board.

Evan Jones, left, Cody Gordon and Christian Allen, right, display some of the pink shirts that will be sold Saturday at Wyomia Tyus Olympic Park during the Spalding County Little Leaguea s effort to raise money for the fight against breast cancer.

Little league ball players in the Point Loma Peninsula Charter are rebuilding after an act of arson that burned down one of their score boxes.

Every parent cherishes the memories of their child playing sports. Several parents have sent e-mails to the Trouble Shooters, complaining about a local photographer named Joey Garcia.

When my kids were entering elementary school, we were a little leery about sports.

Say it ain't so, Bo! A reputed capo in the Bonanno crime family is using the name of a Staten Island little league for his social club where he allegedly supervises illegal gambling, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Most professional athletes got to the top by training from an early age. But this intense competition at a young age could have long lasting mental health effects.

Topic: Sports & Recreation Football : Little League Football Published Online Oct 22, 2009 - 01:48 PM Email this to a friend Trenton Little League Football will hold their season-ending awards program at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct.

NEWS 25 talks to the leaders of a little league team, that Vanderburgh County deputies say, were burned by one of their volunteers.

MINNEAPOLIS a ' Chris Massoglia isn't a freak. He just plays one. The 17-year-old Minneapolis actor stars in the film "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," opening Friday.

Parks & Recreation Submitted by William DeMaio on 2009-10-21.   Mayor Timothy T. Stewart, Parks and Recreation Chairman Richard Lorch, and Vice-Chairman Paul Shaker Sr.

Fighting off a Helena Senators' fifth-inning rally, pitcher Brandon Patch checked the runner on first base.

Ask almost any little boy what he wants to be when he grows up and you can expect practically the same answer.

Mark Teixeira took a healthy swing and ... crack! A screaming line drive that cleared the left-field fence at Yankee Stadium for a game-winning home run in the playoffs against Minnesota.

A Putnam County man arrested for holding his son upside down by the ankle and pushing the other to ground at their Little League football practice was granted limited visitation rights Tuesday.

Mark Teixeira took a healthy swing and ... crack! A screaming line drive that cleared the left-field fence at Yankee Stadium for a game-winning home run in the playoffs against Minnesota.

"The theme of the night could have easily been song titles, Memories, The Way We Were, or Oh, What a Night! "In fact, it was all of these and more for the first annual West Cumberland Little League Reunion held Saturday evening, Oct.

David Barry, 41, of Bridgewater is accused of "continually" making menacing phone calls to Kurt and Kelley Dahlgren between October 2008 and June, according to court records.

Well, this was bound to happen, wasn't it? Joe Girardi had spent his first five games as an October manager running from pitcher to pitcher, from move to move, as if he were a 7-year-old opening presents on Christmas morning.

Every fall about 300 Industry area kids take to local parks with jerseys, flags and footballs supplied by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Youth Activity League.

When CC Sabathia takes the mound Tuesday in Game 4 of the ALCS, Devin Harris of the NJ Nets will be rooting for him.

Hal McCoy, the hall-of-fame baseball writer for the Dayton Daily News, knows a thing or two about America's pastime.

Whether running hell-bent together downfield on special teams or just knowing Trey Hobson has his back, Andrew Gachkar knows there is something special going on.It has been that way since kindergarten in Overland Park.

Herbert Miesle of Fremont is celebrating his 93rd birthday today. He and his wife, Doty, had two sons, Michael and David.

A disappointing outcome for the Phils, for sure.. But some little fans aren't letting it get them down too much.

For those who weren't able to catch the Warner Robins American Little League All-Star baseball and softball teams in person this summer, there will be another chance Saturday at 6:30 p.m. - and for a worthy cause.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph today with plenty of rain. Dolores Sharkey would call this a nor'easter. It won't get any better tonight.

The 10-year-old lineman for West's unbeaten Pee Wee team knows that there's quite a process in getting there.

Elias Hernandez CBS 7 News October 14, 2009 Odessa, Texas - The South Odessa Coaches Association is trying to bring little-league baseball back to fields in the area.

When you think Shaq, you think big, right? Think again. Long Island 's version of Shaq is as far, physically, as you can be from the original Shaq, the Cleveland Cavaliers ' super-sized center with the larger-than-life personality.

The chatter on the sidelines caught Scott Schmillen's attention. Schmillen, who was working the first-down chains in a junior varsity football game between Star Valley and Jackson, won't forget what the Star Valley players were saying.

Shawnna Rigg and her Little League players want water for a ballfield, but can't get a drop from the city of Sequim.

In a town where orange and black tiger tails swing from cars on Saturdays and boys begin playing tackle football in third grade, the Upward Football League professes to go against the grain.

All lost, the one thing Rockies relief pitcher Huston Street refused to do was cry.

Nearly everything is in place at Indian Meadows Park for next weekend's 12-year-old New York State Little League Tournament.

The Rotterdam Little League 9- and 10-year-old All-Stars were a team on a mission.

Little league World Series champs Luke Ramirez and Kiko Garcia are the new faces of an anti-violence campaign being launched to protect youth victims across the nation.

By Jim Tuttle Smithfield Times Staff Writer The principal benefactor of the Windsor Castle Park project has offered an additional $1.3 million to build a lighted little league baseball complex on park property.

The 10 inductees at Saturday night's Ravenna Hall of Fame dinner have enjoyed a broad range of experiences - and successes.

Two drivers were shot to death in East Oakland within nine hours of each other Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Ever wonder what it would look like to take an at-bat from a major league pitcher? The Gateway Grizzlies can make that happen for you or your little league team.

October playoff baseball. A season of game after game comes down to a few innings, a few at-bats, a few pitches.

As a tall and lanky boy, Elijah Siler could throw a smoking fastball. He took his Little League team in Sisters, Ore., to the championship twice, said Siler's brother, Jeremiah Siler, 25.

Two youth baseball groups will meet with Park Board officials to hash out a disagreement over which group should have access to the town's Makepeace Park.

Little league football has a less than rosy reputation at times. It's part of the reason why Harrison LaRose's parents, Ben and Cindy, had mixed feelings about letting the 12-year-old with Asperger's syndrome--a milder variant of Autistic Disorder--play. "I kind of felt like I was throwing him into the lion's den," Cindy LaRose said.

With the help of an LCRA grant, the Blanco Little League has again made significant changes to their complex.

Share + Oct 7, 2009 6:31 pm US/Eastern Reporting Adam May BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. This weekend, a memorial service is planned for a young baseball player from Baltimore County who drowned over the summer.A In a WJZ exclusive, his parentsA spoke with Adam May A about the day they lost their son and how they're coping with the tragedy.

A 13-year-old boy's knee got whacked with a baseball, so he sought treatment from his pediatrician, who also was his Little League coach.

Matthews Police Capt. Carla Thompson, of Troutman, earned a master's degree in criminal justice from the Andrew Jackson University in Birmingham, Ala.

New City Little League's 9-10 year old girls softball team finished in second place in all of New York state this summer, epitomizing teamwork all the way.

Joe Mascelli, a manager in Naamans Little League, considered the Pierce family a godsend.

Over 80 years ago, the most famous baseball team ever assembled was slugging their way into the history books, and roughshod through the American League, en route to the 1927 World Series title.

The Warner Robins Area Chamber of Commerce will honor the Warner Robins American Little League softball and baseball teams during the annual Christmas parade.

The Mountain View Little League every year has to spend about $13,000 to maintain the baseball fields at Westwind Park.

Sidney Crosby is still speaking softly, only now he's carrying a different stick.

Iowa radio personality Dic Youngs died early Thursday morning at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, according to friends of the Youngs family.