Oklahoma Little League State Champions
A historical record — and an open research archive.
This project reconstructs Oklahoma's Little League Baseball state-championship history while distinguishing established results, historical compilations, incomplete records and seasons affected by later tournament decisions.
A blank historical entry is treated as an archival gap—not proof that a tournament was never played.
Evidence Standard
Historical Record: published championship chronology.
Corroborated: supported by independent or primary documentation.
Record Incomplete: evidence exists, but a material detail remains unresolved.
Post-Tournament Action: original result later affected by an eligibility or certification decision.
Two documented Little League Baseball World Series appearances.
1964 • Bartlesville National
One of Oklahoma's two documented Little League Baseball World Series appearances.
1988 • Tulsa
Oklahoma's second documented Little League Baseball World Series appearance.
Oklahoma State Champions • 1957–2026
The chronology below preserves the best currently documented record and visibly flags years requiring explanation.
| Year | Champion / historical status | Evidence classification |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Tulsa National † | Annotated / incomplete |
| 2025 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2024 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2023 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2022 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2021 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2020 | International tournament not held — COVID-19 | Annotated / incomplete |
| 2019 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2018 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2017 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2016 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2015 | Tulsa | Historical record |
| 2014 | Pittsburg County (McAlester) | Historical record |
| 2013 | Tulsa | Historical record |
| 2012 | Northeast Oklahoma (Fairland) | Historical record |
| 2011 | Pittsburg County (McAlester) ‡ | Annotated / incomplete |
| 2010 | Tulsa American | Historical record |
| 2009 | Tulsa American | Historical record |
| 2008 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2007 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2006 | Northeast Oklahoma (Fairland) | Historical record |
| 2005 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2004 | John Hess (Tulsa) | Historical record |
| 2003 | Tulsa National § | Annotated / incomplete |
| 2002 | Tulsa National | Historical record |
| 2001 | Grove Sports | Historical record |
| 2000 | Del City Ballpark | Historical record |
| 1999 | Miami | Historical record |
| 1998 | Miami | Historical record |
| 1997 | Cherokee County National (Tahlequah) | Historical record |
| 1996 | Miami | Historical record |
| 1995 | Cherokee County National (Tahlequah) | Historical record |
| 1994 | Cherokee County National (Tahlequah) | Historical record |
| 1993 | Miami | Historical record |
| 1992 | Cherokee County (Tahlequah) | Historical record |
| 1991 | Grove | Historical record |
| 1990 | Cherokee County (Tahlequah) | Historical record |
| 1989 | Cherokee County (Tahlequah) | Historical record |
| 1988 | Tulsa ★ | Historical record |
| 1987 | Tulsa | Historical record |
| 1986 | Tulsa | Historical record |
| 1985 | Bartlesville American | Historical record |
| 1984 | Miami | Historical record |
| 1983 | Bartlesville Federal | Historical record |
| 1982 | Miami | Historical record |
| 1981 | Bartlesville | Historical record |
| 1980 | Miami | Historical record |
| 1979 | Bartlesville | Historical record |
| 1978 | Unknown — archival gap | Annotated / incomplete |
| 1977 | Miami | Historical record |
| 1976 | Chickasha | Historical record |
| 1975 | Afton | Historical record |
| 1974 | Bartlesville Federal | Historical record |
| 1973 | Commerce-Quapaw | Historical record |
| 1972 | Bartlesville U.S. | Historical record |
| 1971 | Commerce-Quapaw | Historical record |
| 1970 | Commerce-Quapaw | Historical record |
| 1969 | Bartlesville National | Historical record |
| 1968 | Miami | Historical record |
| 1967 | Commerce-Quapaw | Historical record |
| 1966 | Bartlesville | Historical record |
| 1965 | Chickasha | Historical record |
| 1964 | Bartlesville National ★ | Historical record |
| 1963 | Bartlesville U.S. | Historical record |
| 1962 | Chickasha | Historical record |
| 1961 | Bartlesville American | Historical record |
| 1960 | Bartlesville U.S. | Historical record |
| 1959 | Bartlesville U.S. | Historical record |
| 1958 | Bartlesville U.S. | Historical record |
| 1957 | League unidentified — championship confirmed | Annotated / incomplete |
The years that require more than a name in a table.
1957 • Champion confirmed; league unresolved
A published participant account confirms an Oklahoma state championship was won in 1957, but the winning league has not yet been reliably identified. The record remains intentionally open.
1978 • Genuine archival gap
The historical compilation identifies champions immediately before and after 1978 but leaves Oklahoma's 1978 entry blank. That absence is not treated as proof that no state tournament occurred.
2003 • Shawnee result and subsequent disqualification
Shawnee defeated Tulsa National 9–6. The historical compilation reports that Shawnee was subsequently disqualified because its regular-season schedule did not meet the minimum requirements for a certified Little League Baseball schedule; Tulsa National is therefore listed in the chronology.
2011 • Tulsa result and subsequent disqualification
Tulsa National defeated Pittsburg County 12–0 but was subsequently disqualified for an ineligible-player violation. Pittsburg County is consequently listed as Oklahoma champion.
2020 • No International Tournament
The International Tournament was not held because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a documented interruption, not a missing record.
2026 • Tulsa National and later tournament action
Tulsa National defeated Washington County 10–0 in the Oklahoma state tournament and represented Oklahoma at the Southwest Region Tournament. Little League International later removed Tulsa National from the regional tournament following an eligibility determination and declared its previous regional game a forfeit.
Oklahoma's route through Little League changed over time.
North / Central
1957–1964 and 1967–1999
Southern / Gulf States
Southern: 1965–1966 and 2000
Gulf States: 2001
Southwest
Beginning in 2002. The current Southwest Region serves Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
A descriptive pattern in the championship record.
From 2002 through 2026, the historical list records a Tulsa-area league as Oklahoma champion/representative in 21 of 25 tournament years. This is a descriptive statistic; by itself, it does not establish why the concentration occurred.
The 25-season span includes 2020, when the International Tournament was not held. The displayed 21/25 measure follows the historical chronology's 2002–2026 period and should be read together with the exceptional-season annotations above.
Southwest Region Little League Historical Directory
The championship chronology is cross-referenced against the Unpage Publications Southwest Region historical directory. The directory provides Oklahoma state-tournament and regional-history context used as a historical compilation within this research project.
This source is treated as a historical reference rather than as an official Little League publication. Baseball Heaven separately annotates unresolved years, later disqualifications and facts supported by additional primary or independent documentation.
Review the Source Record
Data Source: Unpage Publications — Southwest Region Tournament Historical Directory.
Readers are encouraged to review the underlying historical compilation directly and compare it with the evidence classifications and annotations presented on this page.
What a blank record means — and what it does not.
Absence of evidence is not treated as evidence that no tournament occurred.
Where the surviving record does not identify a champion, Baseball Heaven classifies the season as an unresolved archival gap unless independent evidence establishes what occurred. Historical compilations are cross-referenced against official Little League material, litigation records, contemporary reporting, participant accounts and project documents when available.
Help Complete the Historical Record
Former players, coaches, league officials, families, historians and newspaper archives may hold the missing evidence. Photographs, tournament brackets, programs, newspaper clippings, scorebooks and official correspondence can help identify the 1957 league and resolve the 1978 gap.
Results, later decisions and interpretation are kept separate.
Game Result
What happened on the field is preserved when the historical record identifies it.
Administrative Decision
A later eligibility, certification or tournament ruling is documented separately rather than silently replacing the underlying event history.
Research Question
Patterns can justify further inquiry without proving motive, favoritism or wrongdoing. Those questions remain distinct from documented facts.
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