My first Little League team (early 70's) could have been the Bad News Bears. The manager was a friend's dad who was a super nice guy, meaning he let kids do whatever we wanted and had fun after-game get togethers. He always had a cigar in his mouth. The assistant coach would drink a six pack before practice and just stood around, never saying or doing anything.
We actually had pitching rules, 6 innings per week. So a team with 2 decent pitchers could each pitch complete games every week and win the league. One trophy was given out at the end of the year to the winner of the league, Imagine that.
I also remember we had Ron Bloomberg as a guest speaker at our year-end league banquet. He was a pretty big deal since he was a Yankee and we were in NJ. He was also the first-ever DH in MLB. It was really cool having him there until he announced he was leaving the banquet with 30 kids waiting in line for an autograph... it seems they only paid him to stay until 8:00pm so he left. Not cool to do to a bunch of kids.