Building the Little League Directory: 146 Leagues, 13 States, and What We Learned

Every spring, millions of families ask the same question: where does my kid actually play baseball? Over the past week we set out to make that question easy to answer — and to connect every league we list to the batting cages nearby. Here's where the CageList Little League directory stands, and a few things we learned building it.

What we built

The Little League directory is a free, browsable list of chartered youth baseball leagues, organized by state and city. Each league gets its own page with the essentials a parent needs — divisions, season windows, how to register, and a link straight to the league's own site — plus the batting cages closest to it, so hitters can stay sharp between games. It's the youth-baseball companion to our adult & men's league directory, and both are covered in our guide to finding a baseball league near you.

Coverage so far

We're now live in thirteen states — California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Virginia, Washington, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maryland, and Ohio — with more on the way. Recent rounds rounded out Southern California (San Diego, Orange County, and the Inland Empire), the D.C. suburbs and Hampton Roads, metro Atlanta, the Carolina Piedmont, Middle Tennessee and Knoxville, greater Milwaukee and Madison, the Twin Cities, the Baltimore–DC corridor, and the big Ohio metros. You can browse any state directly, like California, Texas, or North Carolina.

One rule: every market has real cages behind it

We don't add a league just because it exists. Before researching a metro, we check it against live batting-cage inventory on the platform. If there aren't real, bookable cages near a market, it waits. That's why we expanded Southern California but held off on the San Francisco Bay Area for now — the cage supply there is still thin, and a league page with no cages nearby doesn't help anyone.

What we learned

The most interesting finding: not every "youth baseball league" is a Little League. In metro Atlanta especially, a large share of youth baseball runs through independent, PONY-style recreational and travel associations rather than chartered Little League International programs. They're great organizations — but they aren't Little Leagues, so we kept them out of the Little League directory rather than mislabel them. We published only the leagues we could confirm on official Little League district rosters.

The other lesson is how easily a name can fool you. Little League names repeat constantly across the country, and a careless match can put the wrong league on the wrong page. In this round alone we caught and threw out a "Roswell" league that was actually in New Mexico, a "Canton" league in North Carolina, a "Decatur" league in Indianapolis, and a Vancouver league that turned out to be in British Columbia rather than Washington. Every league we publish is cross-checked for the right city, the right state, and a website that genuinely belongs to it.

Where we're headed

The goal is national coverage: a family anywhere should be able to find their league and the cages around it in a couple of clicks. We're rolling out state by state, keeping the same bar — real cages nearby, every listing verified, nothing guessed. If your league isn't listed yet, it's probably coming soon; if you'd like it added or corrected sooner, claim its page or send us a note. In the meantime, go find your league.