American Legion Baseball
Registration Form Printer
Founded in 2002 by Sterling McClellan Post 142 for American Legion teams
Americanism Baseball Registration. Legion teams using this site for Legion tournament
Forms have advanced to and won tournament awards in the Department of Florida.
All American Legion Coaches and Players are invited to use
this free, nationally
Recognized
and officially
Compliant
baseball league registration site. Please use the phone
# or eMail address at the bottom of this page
if you need help.
Are you a Military
Veteran supporting the Return to
the "Crack of the Bat"?
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Baseball Player or
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Dedicated to the memory
of all those who died
from a baseball batted
from an aluminum bat.
This site is dedicated to the SAFETY of Wood Bat Baseball
Modern technology has created an aluminum bat which, on any given impact,
transfers more energy to the ball than a wood bat, giving it a higher
velocity - significantly enough higher to put pitchers at greater
risk, too often unable to react in time to avoid serious injury or death.
Aluminum bats are not allowed in the Major Leagues and, with the safety
of the player at stake as well as to properly reflect the standards of
the Major Leagues, should not be used in the American Legion Leagues.
States are encouraged to approve wood bat baseball for
regular season play as stated below.
** Bat Rules **
Wooden bats are permitted under Official Baseball Rules
as published by The Sporting News.
A non-wood bat must have an approved, coded certification
mark on the barrel of the bat
signifying the bat is legal for NCAA competition.
Any bat that fails to meet these specifications or, in the umpire's
judgment, has been altered to
affect the distance factor or cause an
unusual reaction on the baseball shall be removed from
the game.
The batter shall be declared out. Base runners shall not advance.
These rules may be further modified by the departments (states)
for regular season play only and cannot conflict with national rules.
Cooperstown is perhaps best known as the home of the
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
. Folklore tells that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in nearby
Fly Creek in 1839. Part of the film A League of Their
Own was filmed in Cooperstown.
BASEBALL IMMORTALS
"An alternate to Cooperstown and home to the most
powerful baseball encyclopedia on the market"
Last week's Question of the Week asked whether metal bats should
be banned from organized youth baseball. The response was huge,
with more than four out of five favoring a ban.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer signed a resolution on Wednesday urging
the American Legion to adopt a wood bat-only rule in its youth
baseball leagues, in Montana and across the country.
Former American Legion Baseball players
inducted into the National Baseball
Hall of Fame include:
Robert A. Feller - 1962
Ted S. Williams - 1966
Joseph M. Medwick - 1968
Roy Campanella - 1969
Stanley F. Musial - 1969
Louis Boudreau - 1970
Early Wynn - 1972
Lawrence (Yogi) Berra - 1972
Warren Spahn - 1973
Ralph M. Kiner - l975
Bob Lemon - 1976
Eddie Mathews - 1978
Al Kaline - 1980
Robert Gibson - 1981
Frank Robinson - 1982
Brooks C. Robinson - 1983
George Kell - 1983
Peewee Reese - 1984
Donald Drysdale - 1984
Harmon Killebrew - 1984
J. Hoyt Wilhelm - 1985
Bobby Doerr - 1986
Jim "Catfish" Hunter - 1987
Willie Stargell - 1988
Carl Yastrzemski - 1989
Johnny Bench - 1989
Jim Palmer - 1990
Joe Morgan - 1990
Tom Seaver - 1991
Rollie Fingers - 1991
Hal Newhouser - 1991
Gaylord Perry - 1992
Reggie Jackson - 1993
Steven Carlton - 1994
Richie Ashburn - 1995
Jim Bunning - 1996
Nellie Fox - 1997
Phil Niekro - 1997
George Brett - 1999
Robin Yount - 1999
Sparky Anderson - 2000
Carlton Fisk - 2000
Dave Winfield - 2001
Gary Carter - 2003
Eddie Murray - 2003
Paul Molitor - 2004
FUTURE
HALL OF FAMERS:
[ Local Teams ]
FL : Am.Legion Post 142FL
Team: POST 142
Coach: Kenneth Arnold Robbie Terrinca - 2010
The Sport Journal
A call for change from aluminum to wooden baseball bats in the NCAA
By: Matt Kelly, M.A.
Florida State University
and Paul Pedersen, Ph.D.
Bowling Green State University
Ever since hits and home runs increased significantly after a
leading aluminum bat manufacturer introduced the ABlack Magic@
bat in 1985, a controversy has raged in the National Collegiate
Athletic Association (NCAA) concerning the use of aluminum
baseball bats.
Jack MacKay joined Louisville Slugger in 1989 and was put in
charge of designing a high-performance aluminum bat to catch
industry leader Easton. Mixing space-age alloys and creative
engineering, MacKay developed high-priced, high-profit models
that left wood in the dust. He since has found a form of
baseball religion.
"This is the kind of technology you ought to be throwing at bin
Laden, not some baseball pitcher," he says today. "We've
over-engineered it. It's the worst thing I ever did. Aluminum
bats and wood bats are not even in the same ballpark."
The folks at Louisville Slugger and Easton, leaders in a $150
million-a-year business, don't much care for MacKay or for that
kind of talk. They attack MacKay's credibility, charging that he
has been waging a "personal vendetta" against his former
employer and has a "strong, personal economic interest" in
criticizing the safety of aluminum-bat companies.
It's true: MacKay owns a new company that makes wood bats. He
stands to make big bucks if aluminum crumbles. He doesn't hide
from any of it. "A lot of people say I'm just trying to get into
heaven now to make up for what I did," MacKay says. "But don't
buy my wood bat. Buy somebody else's, but go with the safe
stuff."
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