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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Thu Sep 10, 2015, 02:52 PM Sep 2015

13-year-olds being phased out of Little League

http://news.yahoo.com/13-olds-being-phased-little-league-151802028--spt.html

The organization announced Thursday it is changing its age requirement, phasing 13-year-olds out of the division that plays in the annual Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

They are doing that by changing the league's "age determination date" to Aug. 31. That will prevent anyone who turns 13 during the baseball season from playing in the major division of Little League baseball....

Many of the stars of the Little League World Series have been 13-year-olds and 67 teenagers were among the 209 players who competed in the just completed tournament in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

But league spokesman Brian McClintock said the change had nothing to do with the number of hits or home runs being recorded by 13-year-olds. He said the league doesn't even track those numbers.

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