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April 9th, 2008
Baseball is a great sport, and Little League continues to be one of the premier youth organizations. However in the mid-1990’s (when today’s Little Leaguers were born), we started to notice an alarming increase in serious injuries in adolescent pitchers. For example during the last five years of the 1990’s, 21 of the 190 “Tommy John” surgeries at our center were high school age pitchers or younger; however during the first five years of this decade, 124 of our 627 “Tommy John” surgeries were high school age pitchers or younger. This alarming trend was also happening for other types of pitching injuries. (more…)
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April 8th, 2008
These commonly asked questions apply only to the regular season baseball pitching regulation (pitch count). The new pitch count regulation (Reg. VI) will be printed in the Official Little League 2008 Rules and Regulations for baseball, and is available here for download.
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April 6th, 2008
First aid is a leading issue heading into the new season. Creating a safer environment means being prepared for injuries and minimizing the negative impact they create.
Read the Little League pamphlet ‘First Aid at the Field’
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