1970 Little League Baseball Certificate of Charter

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1970

Overview

A framed 1970 Certificate of Charter granted to the Tuart Hill Little League. The frame has no glass. The pre-printed certificate is on sepia-coloured paper and has added information typed in, as well as a signature in blue/black ink. It has extensive water and insect damage and loss of surface area. The wooden frame is painted silver over black, with much loss of silver paint. The remaining silver paint and black under-surface of the frame shows cracking.

Historical information

Little League Baseball and Softball (officially, Little League Baseball Inc) is a non-profit organisation based in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States, that organises local youth baseball and softball leagues throughout the United States and the rest of the world.

Little League Baseball Incorporated was founded by Carl Stotz in 1939 as a three-team league in Williamsport, and formally incorporated on October 10, 1950.
Little League Baseball encourages local volunteers to organise and operate Little League programs that are annually chartered through Little League International. Each league can structure itself to best serve the children in the area in which the league operates. Several specific divisions of Little League baseball and softball are available to children and adolescents ages 4 to 16. The organization holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code.

This 1970 Certificate of Charter bears the signature of national Little League Commissioner John Lindemuth.

Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_League_Baseball]

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-100-2020.412

Item type

Documents

Themes

People
Social History
Sport

Material

Paper

Wood

Width

24 cm

Height or length

19 cm

Depth

1 cm

Inscriptions and markings

'Little League Baseball Incorporated'
'In witness that:'
'Tuart Hill Little League'
'has been organized in accordance with established procedures of Little League Baseball and is hereby franchised for 1970'
'Certificate of Charter'
'1970'
'Granted herein are all privileges needed for proper conduct of your league consistent with the best interest of the Little League movement'
'Issued this: 16th day of March 1970 at Williamsport, Pennsylvania'
'John Lindemuth' [signature]
'Charter expires September 15, 1970 subject to conditions printed on reverse side'

Contextual Information

This 1970 Certificate of Charter, granted to the Tuart Hill Little League in Western Australia, was donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by the family of Ray Allen, a stalwart of Little League in the Tuart Hill area for many years.

Keywords

Little League Baseball Incorporated

Tuart Hill Little League

John Lindemuth

Certificate of Charter

Place made

Williamsport
Pennsylvania
United States

Year

1970

Statement of significance

A well-provenanced, rare item of Little League's involvement in the history of baseball in Western Australia in the 1970s.

Primary significance criteria