(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Tourism Office)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Williamsport, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Tourism Office and the Lycoming County Visitor’s Bureau, more than 70,000 players, coaches, and fans recently descended on Williamsport for the 78th Little League Baseball World Series in 2025, injecting an estimated $40 million into Pennsylvania’s economy. Memorial Park in Williamsport is where the Little League World Series first started back in 1947 and has featured teams from 44 of the 50 states of the United States of America and teams from 29 countries around the world. At least $523,000 has been approved to support various activities and improvements around the Little League Baseball World Series since the beginning of the Shapiro administration. This includes the funding going through the Marketing to Attract Tourists program of the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development. The funding supports the street festival called Williamsport Welcomes the World as well as the Grand Slam Parade for the local community of Williamsport which increases traffic on foot to shops that are local there and supports improvements at the site of the Little League World Series, Bowman Field.