Little League Baseball began in Williamsport in 1939 and grew into the world’s largest organized youth sports program, reaching more than 100 countries and more than 2½ million children by 2014. Founded through Carl Stotz’s vision, with help from family and friends, it was created to provide baseball in a playable format for youth while instilling values and principles for children’s development and giving adults in the community a foundation for teaching them. Its early teams included Lundy Lumber Company, Jumbo Pretzel, and Lycoming Dairy, whose simple first-year uniforms had basic logo patches sewn on the jerseys. Over seventy-five years, its history reflected significant developments including the 1955 Charleston, SC, Little League team of all-black youth who were discriminated against by all-white teams in the South and were invited to Williamsport to take part in many World Series activities but could not play because they had not played a regional game, the participation of girls from the 1950s onward and their official acceptance in the early 1970s, the first international Little League World Series team from Mexico, growth in Asia especially in Taiwan and Japan, the development of the Challenger program, the dreams of present-day youth and adults, and the long service of dedicated volunteers.