Boseman played some Little League baseball as a kid and describes himself as an athlete.
He's back campaigning for the hospital, and he's learned to snowboard and also plays Little League Baseball.
There were parents yelling at coaches and umpires at my Little League baseball games 30 years ago.
These days, it's an accepted part of sports ritual everywhere from Little League baseball diamonds to Wimbledon's Centre Court.
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"I coached him in both T-ball and Little League baseball along with my two sons, " he said of the shooter.
Know the name of the first girl to play Little League baseball?
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Last week, watching my 8-year old son happily playing an innocent game of Little League baseball, I learned that his days of leisurely play are numbered.
Little League Baseball imposed strict per-game pitch limits five years ago, but Andrews said he performed about seven times the number of arm operations on young pitchers that he did 15 years ago.
"In 31 displays, " according to the Associated Press, "54 gophers play hockey and Little League baseball, get a hairdo, preach a sermon, shoot pool in the local tavern...even rob a bank, with the teller told, 'Put your paws up!'"
One reader pointed me to a very different kind of film, Opposite Field, which tells the story of Little League Baseball in Uganda and the team that should have won the Little League World Series last year but for visa troubles.
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Its comeback has very little to do with Major League Baseball.
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Lance Van Auken, Little League's spokesman, said baseball seems to be morphing into a more-structured year-round activity that requires expensive lessons, equipment and travel.
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Little League isn't the only youth baseball game in town, of course.
With the baseball season getting under way, high-school and Little League players aged 13 and up face a change in their hitting game: In response to safety concerns, they will no longer be able to wield the metal and composite bats they swung last year.
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