Little League

A 40-year-old Staten Island man has been arrested for allegedly punching an umpire at a Little League baseball game in New Jersey earlier this month, leaving the 72-year-old bleeding from the face, prosecutors said.

“It was her first time this year to get into a sport, but within time, she loved it,” the aunt of Eliahana Cruz Torres, one of the girls killed, told NBC News.

Opening day on the diamond at the Chevy Chase Recreation Center was full of the excitement. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Baseball season for Capitol City Little League in Chevy Chase D.C. kicked off on Saturday, and the event featured a short parade and a first pitch from Mayor Muriel Bowser.  The procession from Connecticut to Western avenues kicked off the season for the oldest little league in the District — a tradition that’s new again thanks to the pandemic....

Here is the schedule, streaming information and more for the 2021 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa.

Little League is offering youth baseball organizations a pathway forward as they eye a restart amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now that sports seasons are getting cancelled for kids everywhere, one little league team is going online. News4’s Megan McGrath has the story.

A volunteer who stole nearly $300,000 from a Mansfield little league team was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to theft of property. Jennifer Sue Witteveen, 52, of Arlington, became the treasurer for the Mansfield Youth Baseball Association when her child was playing there, prosecutors said. She was convicted of making cash withdrawals and writing fraudulent checks…

Mo’ne Davis, the first girl to pitch a victory in the Little League World Series, will attend Hampton University and play softball.

A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74-year-old Democrat’s second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades-long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

A Little League team that plays on the field where Rep. Steve Scalise was shot in June visited the congressman on Friday at the Capitol. “It’s not about your setbacks. It’s about how you get up and recover from them,” he told the young people. News4’s Chris Gordon reports.

Two people with connections to the Washington, D.C., area have been identified as victims of the Las Vegas shooting that left at least 58 dead and injured hundreds of others.

Kelsie Whitmore and Team USA baseball teammate Stacy Piagno, 25, signed with the independent Sonoma Stompers of the Pacific Association earlier this week.

No one in the sports world had heard of the 2014 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year until August.