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 was established in 1981.  The Taconic Little League is comprised of the towns of Milan, Stanford, Clinton and 
Washington. Our southern boundary for the town of Washington residents follows the north side of route 82/44 and north side of route 343. 
TLL has approximately 300 boys and girls ages 5-18 playing baseball and softball.