Editing Warner Robins, Georgia (section)

=== Baseball and softball ===
According to Warner Robins residents, Claude Lewis, director of the Warner Robins Recreation Department, invented the game of [[tee-ball]] in 1958. The first game was played in March of that year with 20 children participating. Lewis wrote rules for the new game and sent rule books out to recreation departments all over the country.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} In 2006, a field was dedicated and named for Lewis, "the father of tee-ball", at the Warner Robins American Little League complex.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}}

Warner Robins American Little League won the [[2007 Little League World Series]], defeating Tokyo Kitasuna Little League of [[Tokyo, Japan]] 3–2 in the final.<ref>{{Citation | title = Georgia crowned LLWS champs behind Carriker's 8th-inning jack | work = ESPN | publisher = The Associated Press | date = August 26, 2007 | url = https://www.espn.com/sports/llws07/news/story?id=2992252 | access-date = December 4, 2009 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006153233/http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/llws07/news/story?id=2992252 | archive-date = October 6, 2010 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> Dalton Carriker hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to win the game for Georgia.

[[File:Southeast Region Headquarters.JPG|thumb|Southeast Region Headquarters of Little League]]
On December 9, 2008, the Little League International Board of Directors unanimously voted for Warner Robins to become the new Southeast Region Headquarters of Little League baseball and softball. Games began to be played in Warner Robins in 2010.<ref>{{cite web| title = Warner Robins, Ga., Selected as Site of New Little League Southeast Region Headquarters| work = Little League Online| publisher = Little League| date = December 9, 2008| url = http://www.littleleague.org/media/newsarchive/2008stories/WarnerRobinsGaSelectedforSoutheastRegionHeadquarters.htm| access-date = December 4, 2009| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090525055026/http://www.littleleague.org/media/newsarchive/2008stories/WarnerRobinsGaSelectedforSoutheastRegionHeadquarters.htm| archive-date = May 25, 2009| df = mdy-all}}</ref>

The Warner Robins American Little League girls' softball team won the 2009 [[Little League Softball World Series]] by defeating [[Crawford, Texas]], making Warner Robins the only Little League to have won both a baseball and a softball title.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.espn.com/sports/news/story?id=4410985 | title = Warner Robins team routs Crawford | publisher = ESPN | date = August 25, 2009 | access-date = August 26, 2009 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090825043852/http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=4410985 | archive-date = August 25, 2009 | df = mdy-all }}</ref>

The Warner Robins American Little League girls' softball team defended their 2009 championship by defeating [[Burbank, California]], in the 2010 Little League Softball World Series. By doing so, Warner Robins became only the fourth Little League program to produce back-to-back championship teams, and the first since [[Waco, Texas]], which had won in 2003 and 2004.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.littleleague.org/media/newsarchive/2010/May-Aug/2010LLSBWSChamps.htm | title = Warner Robins American Little League Repeats as Little League Softball World Series Champions | publisher = Little League Online | date = August 18, 2010 | access-date = August 19, 2010 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100822160252/http://www.littleleague.org/media/newsarchive/2010/May-Aug/2010LLSBWSChamps.htm | archive-date = August 22, 2010 | df = mdy-all }}

Warner Robins American Little League made it back to the Little League Baseball World Series in 2011, going 1–2. The team, led by "Man Child" Jake Fromm, was coached by Buddy Deal and Shane Williams, and managed by Phillip Johnson.
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