It began with Carl Stotz of Williamsport, who was watching his nephews playing baseball in a vacant lot. As the boys drew out a diamond in the dirt, Mr. Stotz began to think about how worthwhile it might be to bring adult baseball down to child size. He enlisted friends from within the community, and together they developed a plan.

That first year they found enough youngsters and sponsors to create and outfit three teams representing a local dairy (Lycoming Dairy), a lumber company (Lundy Lumber), and pretzel manufacturer (Jumbo Pretzel). The teams met on a 60-foot diamond with scaled-down bats and uniforms. On June 6, 1939, the Lycoming Dairy and Lundy Lumber teams met in the first official Little League Baseball game. The next day, the Williamsport Sun reported the game results with the same fanfare as its coverage of professional baseball.

From there, the program blossomed. The three-team organization had grown to four by the next year, and the Little League concept began to spread to other towns. By the time the Baby Boom hit in the years following World War II, parents around the country were eager to involve their children in Little League Baseball. In 1951 there were more than 150,000 Little League players across the nation, and Canada became the first non-U.S. nation to have a Little League program.

By 1966, the program had grown to more than 1,600,000 players. In 1974, softball was added. By 1986 there were more than 2.5 million Little Leaguers worldwide. Today, Little League Baseball, Inc. is the largest organized sports program in the world, with 2,700,000 players on 180,000 teams in more than 80 countries around the globe.

Wilson Alvarez (82)
Jim Barbieri (54)*
Jason Bay (90)
Derek Bell (80-81)*
Larvell Blanks (62)
Sean Burroughs (92-93)
Chen Chin-Feng (90)
Bill Conners (54)
Charlie Hayes (77)*
Ken Hubbs (54)
Erik Johnson (78)
Keith Lampard (58)
Carney Lansford (69)*
Vance Lovelace (75)
Jason Marquis (91)*
Lloyd McClendon (71)
Bobby Mitchell (67)
Jim Pankovits (68)
Marc Pisciotta (83)
Boog Powell (54)*
Guillermo Quiroz (94)
Gary Sheffield (80)*
Carl Taylor (54)
Hector Torres (58)
Jason Varitek (84)
Dave Veres (78)
Ed Vosberg (73)**
Dan Wilson (81)
Rick Wise (58)*

NOTES: Number denotes year player participated in the Little League Baseball World Series.
*Denotes player participated in Little League and Major League World Series.
**Denotes player participated in Little League World Series, College World Series and Major League World Series.

PA District 14 provides organized baseball and softball chartered by Little League Baseball, Inc. to thousands of boys and girls ages 5 to 18 in South Central Pennsylvania each year. For over 40 years, PA District 14 consisted of all or parts of seven south-central Pennsylvania counties including:  Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lebanon, Perry and York. Due to the continued growth of Little League Baseball in South Central Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania District 14 has been split into two Districts beginning with the 2008 Season. The new Little Lague District is named PA District 6.

The new PA District 14 consists of old PA District 14 member leagues located south of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. New PA District 6 member leagues consist of old District 14 leagues located north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Some exceptions occur where local league boundaries cross the turnpike.

The leagues making up Pa District 14 and the new PA District 6 have won 4 State Championships in the Majors Division:  Camp Hill (1953);  Red Land (1974);  York (1980); and Shippensburg (1990). In 1990, District 14 Champion Shippensburg also advanced to become the United States National Champion only to lose to San-Hua Chinese Tapei in the Championship Game of the World Series.

Pa District 14 member leagues include:

 PA District 6 member leagues include:

Camp Hill, Cumberland Valley West, Hampden, Harrisburg American, Harrisburg Suburban American, Harrisburg Suburban Keystone, Harrisburg Suburban National, Hershey, Lebanon Valley, Mechanicsburg, Northern Lebanon, and Silver Spring.