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The Central Region was a region that competed in the Little League World Series between 1957 and 2000, until it was split into the Midwest and Great Lakes regions in 2001. The Central Region produced only one world champion, in 1959, when Hamtramck, Michigan, defeated Auburn, California, 12-0, in the Final.
The Central Region was inaugurated in 1957 – as the North Region (until it was renamed the Central Region in 1973) – when the LLWS first gave out Series berths to regional winners. The region consisted of teams from the Dakotas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Wisconsin. In 2000, Kentucky replaced Oklahoma in the region.
Little League Baseball expanded the LLWS to sixteen teams for the 2001 Little League World Series. The Central Region was split into the Midwest Region (the Dakotas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska) and the Great Lakes Region (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin).
Regional Champions (1957-2000)
The following table indicates the Central Region champion and its LLWS performance in each year between 1957 and 2000.