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Hanford College, Little Ivy League, had no room for football players with low grades.
The Abner Doubleday Little League and Babe Ruth Fields in Ballston Spa, New York, the town of his birth.
While Capcom's first product was the coin-operated Little League from July 1983, its first real video game, the arcade title Vulgus, was released in May 1984.
He helped coach his son Owen's Bangor West team to the Maine Little League Championship in 1989.
*" MoneyBART ", the third episode of The Simpsons ' 22nd season, in which Lisa utilizes sabermetrics to coach Bart's Little League Baseball team.
In Little League Baseball and Softball, rules call for the game to end if the winning team is ahead by 10 runs after four innings ( 3½ innings if the home team is ahead ).
* June 4 – Carl Stotz, American founder of Little League Baseball ( b. 1910 )
Ivy League universities, particularly Harvard and Yale, as well as " Little Ivy " liberal arts colleges, remained bastions of old Yankee culture until well after World War II.
His methods encouraged many future television comedians to break away from conventional studio-bound shooting styles, as demonstrated by shows such as Green Wing, Little Britain and The League of Gentlemen.
For five years, he provided satirical looks at areas such as Little League baseball, boating and babysitting.
For one week during the middle of July every year, Dover also hosts the Big League ( Little League 16-18 ) Eastern Regionals, attracting teams from all of New England and the Mid-Atlantic.
A change of pace about misfits on a Little League baseball team turned out to be a solid hit in 1976 when Matthau starred as coach Morris Buttermaker in the comedy The Bad News Bears
Ryan joined Alvin Little League Baseball when he was nine, made the all-star team when he was 11 and 12, and pitched the first no-hitter of his life a few years later.
Newark was originally to be one of three cities to represent New Jersey in the Can-Am League along with Little Falls, home of the New Jersey Jackals, and Augusta, home of the Sussex Skyhawks.
To occupy his time he became a Little League coach, and also worked on a guitar fan / collector project, which was to create a limited-edition run of Jackson King V " Big Red " replica guitars.
* Christy Mathewson Park in Factoryville is home to the community's Little League field, as well as basketball courts and other athletic facilities, public gardens, walking trails and a picnic pavilion.
In 1994, the Northridge Little League Baseball team won the United States Little League Championship game, but lost the World Series game to the international team from Zulia-Maracaibo, Venezuela.
He founded the Caldwell Cub Scouts and was instrumental in the development of the Caldwell Little League.
The route through Toms River Township is lined with many businesses and named Little League World Champions Boulevard in honor of Toms River East Little League's victory in the 1998 Little League World Series.

Little and is
Especially touching is the chapter, `` The Little Sister '', about a king's daughter who became a nun in the convent of St. Birgitta.
`` Little Rock is a vile, detestable place.
`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.
Little is known of the synthetic mechanisms for formation of thyroglobulin.
and that they can ignore what is happening in Northern cities because what is happening in Little Rock or Birmingham is worse.
The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.
Little is known of the territorial behaviour of caecilians but some frogs and salamanders defend home ranges.
In some stories the question of whether formal justice will be done is left unresolved, such as Five Little Pigs, and arguably Ordeal by Innocence.
The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.
* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.
Areas of southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado form a loose northern boundary, while the southern edge is defined by the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in Arizona and the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande in New Mexico.
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.
In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.
Little attention is paid to political, diplomatic, or military history, or to biographies of famous men.
The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.
Little is known of his life, however it is clear that Alan entered the schools no earlier than the late 1140s ; first attending the school at Paris, and then at Chartres.
Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip II.
Little is known on their relationship, but Crispus soon died and left his estate to Nero.
Little is known about the Gutian period, or how long it endured.
Little is known about Ammonius's role in the development of Neoplatonism.

Little and named
The group proceeded to Little Andaman Island, where they spent ten days surfing several spots for the first time, including Jarawa Point near Hut Bay and the long right reef point at the southwest tip of the island, named Kumari Point.
Columbus had found the two small islands ( Cayman Brac and Little Cayman ) and it was these two islands that he named " Las Tortugas ".
A young harmonicist named Marion " Little Walter " Jacobs revolutionized the instrument by playing the harmonica with a microphone ( typically a " Bullet " microphone marketed for use by radio taxi dispatchers cupped in his hands with the harmonica, giving it a " punchy " mid-range sound that can be heard above radio static, or an electric guitar ).
A raid on a summer lodge named " Little Bohemia " in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, left an FBI agent and a civilian bystander dead, and others wounded.
Laika, a stray dog, originally named Kudryavka ( Little Curly ), underwent training with two other dogs, and was eventually chosen as the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957.
She was christened the U. S. Navy's official " Little Sister "; the Army named two cannons after her and made her an honorary colonel.
In John Crowley's Little, Big ( 1981 ), a drug named Pellucidar is mentioned and appears to have an exhilarating and even aphrodisiac effect.
It has been speculated that the name and acronym were selected in a sly reference to the movie Little Caesar, which featured a notorious gangster named Rico.
For example, Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir, whose rule is considered to have marked the peak of power for Moorish Al-Andalus Iberia, married Abda, daughter of Sancho Garcés II of Navarra, who bore him a son, named Abd al-Rahman, and commonly known in pejorative sense as Sanchuelo ( Little Sancho, in Arabic: Shanjoul ).
A bird named Margalo is adopted by the Little family, and Stuart protects her from their malevolent cat.
At a later gig, Sharkey named the band " Little Feat ": a name already used by another group.
An adaptation of the song, named " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth ", was written by Charles Randolph Grean, Fred Hertz and Leonard Nimoy ( Nimoy recites the text as Spock explaining how the star-people wish upon an earth and so forth ).
By executive order of President Harry S. Truman, the U. S. employed the uranium-type nuclear weapon code named " Little Boy " on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed three days later by the detonation of the plutonium-type weapon code named " Fat Man " over the city of Nagasaki on August 9.
TV's The Simpsons family own a greyhound named Santa's Little Helper.
Little was known of the disease at the time ; the first cases had only been identified in 1980, and it had only been named in 1982.
In Bruna's hometown, Utrecht, there is a square named after Nijntje, the Nijntjepleintje ( lit: Little Nijntje Square, to retain the rhyme ) and in 2006, the Centraal Museum opened a permanent exhibition, the dick bruna huis ( Dick Bruna house ).
Little more than a year after her birth, Maria Theresa was joined by a sister, Archduchess Maria Anna, and another one, named Maria Amalia, was born in 1724.
Area 8 is called Southview and rests upon a broad hill named Little Bull Mountain across Oregon Highway 99W from the taller Bull Mountain.
Another common nickname for a son named after his father is having " Little " placed in front of his name, as in " Little Pete ", though this tends to be avoided if possible ( especially if the son happens to become physically bigger than the father he's named after, and / or when the son becomes a full grown adult, regardless of if he does, or doesn't physically outgrow the father he shares a name with ).
Examples of such: Kujavia, Masovia, Sandomir, Greater Poland and Kalisz as well as various minor duchies, often short-lived and / or in personal union or merger, named after their capitals, mainly in the regions known as Little Poland and Greater Poland, including ( there are often also important Latin and / or German forms ) Kraków, Łęczyca and Sieradz.
Santa's Little Helper has made an impact on real life in that an espresso-based drink has been named after him at the award-winning restaurant and bar Bambara in Salt Lake City's Hotel Monaco.

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