This summer ESPN will broadcast 231 Little League games. But professional players say international exposure is not harmful to its pre-teen athletes
The championship game of the Little League Baseball World Series – rather, the Little League Baseball World Series presented by Dick’s Sporting Goods – will be the 231st and final Little League baseball or softball game to be televised this year by ESPN.
According to ESPN, those 231 games are a record, blowing away the old one of 140 games, set last summer. The record set in 2017 edged the previous mark of 137 games, set in 2016. As recently as 2000, a mere 18 games and a home-run derby aired on ESPN and ABC.
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