The 2016 version of the Little League Rules Index is now available for download. Kevin Hunter’s Little League Rules Index for 2016 For those of you with smartphones, I’m still in the process of updating both the iOS and Android versions. For more information on that, stay tuned!
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I've spent more than 25 years as a Little League umpire. Where has the time gone? I've been part of the Little League community in Connecticut, Long Island and Florida and am currently a proud member of New Jersey District 10.Author Archive | uic
2016 Little League Rule and Regulation Changes
Here is a brief summary of the 2016 Little League rule and regulation changes. Note that not all of these changes were listed in the front of the rulebook – Little League listed what they considered the “significant” rule changes there, but didn’t mention some less obvious ones.
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2015 LLSB Eastern Regional 7/30 – Day Six
Championship day in Bristol. Delaware (visitors) vs. Rhode Island (home). Delaware had one loss, so they had to beat Rhode Island twice today if they wanted to take the title of Eastern Region Champions. As I mentioned, the game had been moved up to 11:00am because it was expected that we’d have bad weather in […]
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2015 LLSB Eastern Regional 7/29 – Day Five
It’s hard to believe that the tournament is almost over – how time has flown. The PA system announced that today was the hottest day of the year in Bristol. I can well believe it – it was mid-90’s and bright sun. About the only thing that provided any relief as that there was a […]
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2015 LLSB Eastern Regional 7/28 – Day Four
With 12 games of the 18 behind us, today we only had three games instead of four. The 11:00 game pitted Massachusetts against Pennsylvania – an elimination game. HP – Colin 1B – Dena 2B – Me 3B – Rich This one was hot . The temperature was hovering about 88 degrees, and there wasn’t […]
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2015 LLSB Eastern Regional 7/27 – Day Three
I awoke Monday to find that it had rained. Once again, I had the second and fourth games. The 11:00 game between Maryland and New York was about 15 minutes late in getting started – the grounds crew had needed some extra time to get the field ready before the teams could take infield. Doc […]
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2015 LLSB Eastern Regional 7/26 – Day Two
Sunday was another four-game day. As with the previous day, I was in the second and fourth games. In the first game, Rhode Island beat Maryland 15-0. The crew for this game was: HP – Bill 1B – Dena 2B – Paul 3B – Colin I had the plate for the 1:30 game between Delaware […]
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2015 LLSB Eastern Regional 7/25 – Day One
The first game of the day was at noon on Saturday – Maine vs. Rhode Island. The crew for this game was HP – Dena 1B – Rich 2B – Colin 3B – Bill I didn’t see much of the game – it was hot and I decided that I didn’t want to bake in […]
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2015 LLSB Eastern Regional 7/24 – Day Zero
This year I was honored to be invited to work the Little League Softball Eastern Regional in Bristol Connecticut. Friday is arrival day at the Eastern Regional for both teams and the umpires. After checking in at the (very nice) hotel that Little League provided, the first scheduled event was a 1:00pm meeting of the […]
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2015 Tournament Rules Summary
I have updated my “Tournament Rules Summary” (baseball and softball) for 2015. See here for the appropriate links. The tournament rules are largely unchanged from 2014 – the changes that appeared in the rulebook this year were voted in at the 2014 Little League Congress and applied to tournament play last year.
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