There is also a toolkit available to help departments and coaches tout American Legion Baseball’s centennial to local media.
American Legion Baseball will celebrate its centennial in 2025, and we’re looking to build a collection of stories, photos and more to commemorate this milestone. And American Legion posts and Legion Baseball alumni can help.
If your post sponsors or has sponsored an American Legion Baseball team, or you played Legion Baseball, please share details and mementoes here or through the Baseball category on Legiontown.org.
Among the details Legion posts are encouraged to share:
-Who are some of the successful alumni who played American Legion Baseball for your program?
-What are some of the memorable moments from your Legion Baseball program?
-If you played Legion Baseball, what are some of your favorite memories and how did it impact your life?
Legiontown provides an avenue to post stories and photos about your Legion Baseball program.
The Legion’s Media & Communications Division will share some of these stories throughout 2025 on Legion.org, in The American Legion Magazine and across social media.
Centennial toolkit
Also, National Headquarters has created a toolkit for department baseball chairmen and post leaders to use to spread the word as we celebrate 100 years of American Legion Baseball.
The toolkit is available online here. The toolkit includes the history of American Legion Baseball; sample press releases, media advisories, and social media posts; and testimonials from Legion Baseball alumni who went on to the major leagues.
The American Legion’s National Executive Committee (NEC) passed Resolution 3 at the 2023 Fall Meetings to recognize American Legion Baseball’s celebration of its 100th anniversary in 2025.
The initial resolution proposing an American Legion Baseball program was passed at the Department of South Dakota’s convention on July 17,1925. American Legion Baseball was organized “to teach practical lessons in sportsmanship and citizenship by emphasizing such qualities as loyalty, respect for the rules, fair play, courage and physical fitness.”
Keep up on plans for American Legion Baseball’s 100th anniversary celebration at Legion.org/baseball and on social media on Facebook and X, formerly Twitter.
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