Play Ball! Hopefully. A year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Little League World Series to be canceled, organizers are hopeful the late-summer Classic will return this August. “We are planning as if we are going to have a tournament season,” said Steve Keener, the president and CEO of Little League International.
A plan that must include figuring out a way to safely bring together players from all over the globe. Little League has established a Pandemic Response Commission dedicated to figuring out how to pull off the two-week spectacle in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. “Playing the game itself is the easy part,” Keener said. “We can do all that.