September 09, 2024

Celebrate Legion Baseball turning 100

By The American Legion
Dispatch
Celebrate Legion Baseball turning 100
Celebrate Legion Baseball turning 100

A new toolkit includes sample press releases, social media posts and more to promote American Legion Baseball’s 100th birthday in 2025.

American Legion Baseball will celebrate its centennial in 2025. To help celebrate this milestone, American Legion National Headquarters has created a toolkit for department baseball chairmen and post leaders to use to spread the word.

The toolkit is available online here. It 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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