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Little League and Positive Coaching Alliance invite you to join us for a FREE Webinar on December 13th at 4pm PST (7pm EST)

Help the youth athletes in your Little League program get all they can from baseball and softball: wins and life lessons on and off the field.

This one-hour webinar, led by Positive Coaching Alliance Founder and Executive Director Jim Thompson, and Little League International Director of Operations Nick Caringi, provides:

-Insight into the Little League Double-Goal Coach Model, where a coach’s first goal is winning and second, more-important goal is teaching life lessons through sports.
-Leadership tips and tools to help you shape your Little League into one that cultivates excellence among coaches, parents, fans and players.

Positive Coaching Alliance is a nonprofit organization based at Stanford University with the mission to transform youth sports so that all athletes have a positive, character-building experience.

Join us for the education and inspiration that will help you help the youth in your Little League community.

If You attended the Webinar on November 29th, This presentation will be a repeat for you because we are using the same slides.

Wondering what a webinar is?
It is a workshop or lecture delivered over the Web. A webinar is a very collaborative experience that includes polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter.

Title: Little League - Positive Coaching Webinar

Date: Thursday, December 13, 2007

Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
          4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer

The following changes to the League By Laws were voted on at the September Meeting

1. The 10 Run Mercy Rule will be in effect on any major league weekend games unless the game is the final game of the day.
2. If a major league game is tied at the end of 6 innings the game will end in a tie.

These are the current changes in Little League Regulations for the upcoming season as prescribed by Little League

Regular Season Pitchng Regulations

• A pitch limit for pitchers league age 7-8 has been added, with a maximum of 50 pitches per day. Previously, the limit for these ages was the same as for pitchers who were league age 9-10.
• A provision has been added that prohibits a player who has been removed as a pitcher in a game from playing the position of catcher for the remainder of that day. This was a recommendation of Dr. Andrews and Dr. Fleisig, and is intended to further prevent overuse injuries. The position of catcher, according to Dr. Andrews and Dr. Fleisig, has the second-most overuse injuries, which can be acerbated by moving from pitcher to catcher in the same day. (However, moving from pitcher to any of the other seven positions, or from catcher to pitcher, apparently does not cause the same concerns.)
• Pitchers league age 16 and under who deliver 41 or more pitches in a game must also have a game of rest, in addition to the number of days rest prescribed. Pitchers league age 17-18 who deliver 51 or more pitches in a game must also have a game of rest, in addition to the number of days rest prescribed. This enhancement is designed to help ensure that teams develop more pitchers, and to help ensure that scheduling anomalies do not result in undue advantages for some teams.
• The “automatic” intentional walk was removed. If a pitcher wishes to intentionally walk a batter, he/she must do so by pitching four pitches intentionally outside the strike zone that are not struck at by the batter, and are called “balls” by the umpire. All such pitches will count in determining that pitcher’s pitch count.

Tournament Pitching Rules

• As noted above in the regular season regulations, a provision has been added that prohibits a player who has been removed as a pitcher in a game from playing the position of catcher for the remainder of that day.
• Pitchers league age 16 and under (except those 16-year-olds playing in Big League) who deliver 21 or more pitches in a game must also have a game of rest, in addition to the number of days rest prescribed. Big League Division pitchers league age 16-18 who deliver 36 or more pitches in a game must also have a game of rest, in addition to the number of days rest prescribed.
• A rule allowing the pitcher of record in a suspended game to continue pitching on a subsequent day in that game has been added. However, in the case of a game resumed more than one day after the suspended game, the number pitches delivered in a game in between those dates will also be used to determine eligibility.
• Failure by the manager to remove a pitcher before that pitcher becomes ineligible will result in the suspension of the manager for the next two tournament games, with further penalties possible if the Tournament Committee deems that the infraction merits it. (This removes the automatic forfeiture penalty. However, the Tournament Committee could impose a forfeit if the situation warrants it.)
• The “automatic” intentional walk was removed, as noted in the regular season regulation above.

We created this blog so we can communicate with the players and parents of the league with regard to a variety of issues.  Please feel free to bring up topics for discussion.