<P> 1967: A team from West Tokyo, Japan, is the first team from Asia to win the Little League World Series . </P> <P> 1969: Taiwan begins a dominant era that would see them win 17 Little League World Series titles . </P> <P> 1971: The aluminum baseball bat is first used . It was partly developed by Little League Baseball . Lloyd McClendon of Gary, Indiana, dominates the Little League World Series, hitting five home runs in five at - bats . He later played in the Major Leagues and become the first Little League graduate to manage an MLB club with the Pittsburgh Pirates . </P> <P> 1973: Ed Vosberg plays in the Little League World Series for Tucson, Arizona . He later played in the College World Series for the University of Arizona in 1980 and the World Series in 1997 for the Florida Marlins . Vosberg is the first person to have played in all three world series . </P>

When did little league start using aluminum bats