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For results and details on Eastern Region tournaments held since 2001, visit the Metro Region, Mid-Atlantic Region, and New England Region tournament pages. Eastern Region tournament results from 1957 through 2000 can be found by clicking on the links on the left side of this page. |
Our coverage of the Eastern Region tournament launched on May 16, 1998. Click to contact the webmaster with any comments or questions about this page.
Beginning with the 2001 international tournament, Little League Baseball expanded the Little League World Series to a sixteen team field, and doubled number of U.S. entrants at the World Series from four to eight. As a result, the Eastern Region tournament was replaced by a pair of smaller tournaments that involved state champions from the region. Eastern Region state champions were assigned to New England and Mid-Atlantic regions, with winners from both competitions advances to the Little League World Series. (Subsequent expansion of the Little League World Series led to the creation of a third region, the Metro Region, that draws its participants from Eastern Region states.)
When the Mid-Atlantic and New England Region tournaments were first held in 2001, both tournaments were played in Bristol, with the region's state champions divided into the new tournament fields as follows:
New England Region | Mid-Atlantic Region |
Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont |
Delaware District of Columbia Maryland New Jersey New York Pennsylvania |
Today, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island compete in the Metro Region tournament, which was created in 2022.
Visit our Metro Region, New England Region, and Mid-Atlantic Region pages for results from Eastern Region tournaments since 2001.
The Eastern Region Tournament, which was first held in 1957, was originally a four-team, single-elimination event. Initially, the tournament was held in a variety of Eastern cities, with Staten Island, New York, serving as the tournament host six times. The tournament eventually expanded to a twelve-team format, and after moving to the Town of Newburgh LL Complex in Newburgh, New York in 1977, eventually settled in Bristol.
Click to view a timeline showing the evolution of the Eastern Region Little League tournament structure.
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