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American Legion Baseball is a variety of amateur baseball played by 13-to-19-year-olds in fifty states in the U.S. and Canada.More than 3,500 teams participate each year. The American Legion Department of South Dakota established the program in 1925 at Milbank, South Dakota.
Margaret Gisolo. Margaret Gisolo (Oct. 21, 1914 - Oct. 20, 2009) was an American sportswoman and educator who while still a child was a pioneer in the history of women in baseball as the first girl to play American Legion baseball, a predecessor of Little League. At the time, she was "featured in newspapers across the country". [1]
The Paris Caucus. The American Legion was established in Paris, France, on March 15 to 17, 1919, by a thousand commissioned officers and enlisted men, delegates from all the units of the American Expeditionary Forces to an organization caucus meeting, which adopted a tentative constitution and selected the name "American Legion".
Parker Field. / 46.586; -120.527. Parker Field is a 2,500-seat baseball stadium in the northwest United States, located in Yakima, Washington. Opened 87 years ago in 1937 for the Yakima Pippins of the Western International League, it hosted various professional and amateur teams in the area prior to the opening of Yakima County Stadium in 1993.
Duncan Park is a stadium in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It is primarily used for baseball and is currently the home of the Spartanburg High School baseball team and the Spartanburg Post 28 American Legion Baseball (ALB) team. The ballpark has a capacity of 3,000 people and opened in 1926. It was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Lloyd Hopkins Field is a baseball stadium in Alton, Illinois. Owned and operated by the city of Alton, [3] it is the home field for the Alton River Dragons, a collegiate summer baseball team in the Prospect League, [5] and for American Legion Baseball. [2] Hopkins Field hosted American Legion teams from 1981 to 2015, and they returned in 2020.
Career highlights and awards. 2× All-Star ( 1938, 1947) John Kelly Lewis (August 10, 1916 – February 18, 2011), better known as Buddy Lewis, was a third baseman / right fielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire career with the Washington Senators (1935–41, 1945–47, 1949). Lewis was born in Gastonia, North Carolina .
American Amateur Youth Baseball Alliance known as AAYBA (World Series in Flower Mound Texas with over 300 teams participating ages 7–14 Founded in 1989) American Legion Baseball (ages 13–19) Babe Ruth League (ages 13–18) Cal Ripken Baseball (a division of Babe Ruth League, Inc.) (ages 5–12)