Taconic Little League

New York District 17

31 years of Little League Baseball and Softball

A proud part of the community in the Towns of Clinton, Milan, Stanford and Washington

Welcome to our site. The Taconic Little League web site is here to make finding information about our league easier than ever.  Information 
is grouped into four categories: Our League, Our Teams, Our Volunteers and Information.  Click on the tabs in the top Menu bar to pull up 
specific information on those categories.  Then use the menu bar at left to get category specific information. Also in the top menu bar are quick 
links to our homepage, and the official Little League baseball site.  Hopefully you enjoy our site, please e-mail any questions or comments 
to mdenataleny@hotmail.com

Taconic Little League Serves the Towns of Clinton, Milan, Stanford and Washington.

Little League Organizations are given specific boundaries and may only pull players from within their designated area. Taconic Little League covers all of Clinton, Milan and Stanford and the Town of Washington North of Routes 82 and 343. If you pay town taxes to Clinton, Milan or Stanford you are definitely in TLL boundaries, regardless of what school district you are in. If you are unsure about what Little League Organization serves you please contact the League President and we will be glad to help. You can also use Dutchess County Parcel Access to find out which town you are situated in.

A little history lesson

Little League Baseball began with Carl Stotz of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who was watching his nephews playing baseball in his 
back yard in 1938. Mr. Stotz began to think about how worthwhile it might be to bring adult baseball down to child size.

He enlisted friends from within the community, and together they developed a plan. In 1939, they found enough youngsters and sponsors 
to create and outfit three teams representing a local dairy (Lycoming Dairy), a lumber company (Lundy Lumber), and pretzel manufacturer 
(Jumbo Pretzel). The teams met on a 60-foot diamond with scaled-down bats and uniforms. On June 6, 1939, the Lycoming Dairy and 
Lundy Lumber teams met in the first official Little League Baseball game.

The next day, the Williamsport Sun reported the game results with the same fanfare as its coverage of professional baseball. From there, 
the program blossomed. The three-team organization had grown to four by the next year, and the Little League concept began to spread 
to other towns. By the time the Baby Boom hit in the years following World War II, parents around the country were eager to involve their 
children in Little League Baseball.

In 1951 there were more than 150,000 Little League players across the nation, and Canada became the first non-U.S. nation to have a 
Little League program. By 1966, the program had grown to more than 1,600,000 players. In 1974, softball was added. By 1986 there were 
more than 2.5 million Little Leaguers worldwide. Today, millions of children on six continents are Little Leaguers.

Taconic Little League has been a part of this tradition since 1981.  We are a proud part of the community in the Towns of Clinton, Milan, Stanford and the northern half of Washington.  We provide baseball and softball programs for children between the ages of 5 and 18. Click on the Our Teams tab at the top of the page to see a description of all division of play. We typically register approximately 300 children in our Little League Programs.