Program’s impact on more than 10 million young people highlighted in measure.
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., introduced a house resolution Tuesday, Aug. 26, to recognize the influence and impact of American Legion Baseball over the last century. The program celebrated its 100th year July 17, 2025. It became a national American Legion program in October 1925.
H.R. 663, “Celebrating 100 years of The American Legion Baseball program and honoring its legacy of mentoring young Americans,” is expected to go the full House of Representatives for a vote in September.
The resolution recognizes the program as “a source of mentorship, physical fitness, athletic excellence, and sportsmanship for over 10,000,000 participants around the country and beyond” and that it “continues to serve the American public by providing unique character building and athletic opportunities to young Americans across the country, including the American Legion World Series in Shelby, North Carolina.”
The program, which has seen 89 of its former players inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., and has imparted a code of sportsmanship and citizenship that has guided millions into lives of public service, business, entertainment, education and other fields, now involves some 50,000 athletes and 3,500 teams in all 50 states, as well as Canada and Puerto Rico.
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