Quayle Chosen for Little League Honor : Baseball: Vice president will join Tom Seaver and Sen. Bill Bradley in youth group’s Hall of Excellence.

Dan Quayle--listed near the bottom of his Little League team roster 35 years ago--has been selected as the third inductee to the youth baseball organization’s Hall of Excellence.

The vice president joins former major league pitcher Tom Seaver and basketball star-turned-U.S.-Sen. Bill Bradley.

“Little League baseball is a leadership training program and Vice President Quayle is an outstanding example of what can be achieved by adhering to the values learned while participating in Little League baseball,” Little League President Creighton J. Hale said Monday.

Induction ceremonies will be held Dec. 6 in the Indian Treaty Room of the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, Little League spokesman Steve Keener said. Quayle will donate his old glove to the Little League Museum in Williamsport, Pa., during the ceremonies.

“He’s the first Little League graduate to be vice president,” Keener said.

Little League, a baseball program for youths 9-12, began in 1939. No President ever played Little League.

“President Bush was a Little League coach but never played,” Keener said.

Quayle played baseball for the Herald-Press newspaper team in the Hoosier Little League of Huntington, Ind., in the mid-1950s. Little League officials still have the vice president’s eligibility affidavit and original team roster.

In 1955, Quayle, then 8, was the youngest player on the 15-player team sponsored by the Huntington Herald-Press, a paper his family owned. He was listed 13th.

His statistics were not available, Keener said.

Quayle and his wife, Marilyn, have volunteered as Little League Softball coaches, and their children played in the American Little League of McLean, Va.