Saskatchewan Little League is a non-profit organization, located in Canada, specializing in teaching children the fundamentals of baseball and the values of teamwork, sportsmanship and fair play. Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba Little League together form the Prairie Division within Little League Canada.
Little League was first chartered in Canada in 1951 and was the first International Little League charter ever granted. Little League Baseball involves more than three million youth worldwide in over 100 countries. It is the largest amateur volunteer sport organization in the world. Volunteers give their time to provide a healthy and wholesome, family oriented activity for the children of their community. Little League Canada has only two full time employees. The managers, coaches, umpires, league administrators, etc. are all volunteers from within the Canadian Community.
There are more than 40,000 youth in Canada who are part of Little League Canada and who play the grand old games of baseball and softball during the warms winds of spring and summer. They are supported by more than 100,000 parents, relatives and folks of their communities, big and small. Imagine! Almost 150,000 or more Canadians involved each year in sports that brings out the best in all of us.
Visit Little League Canada for more information.
Little League Baseball, Incorporated is a non-profit organization whose mission is to "to promote, develop, supervise, and voluntarily assist in all lawful ways, the interest of those who will participate in Little League Baseball and Softball."
Millions of children on six continents and scores of countries can attest that baseball, softball and Little League are synonymous. Little League is a heritage to be carried forward proudly in the future by ever increasing waves of those devoted to teaching children how to play and enjoy these great games.
Visit Little League International for more information.
More information about the Prairie Division can be found at Little League Alberta.