Bernard Barnes Baseball Invitational on deck

AMERICAN LEGION MARKS 100 YEARS

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It all started 100 years ago, the oldest American Youth Baseball Program in the United States.

The League was proposed at the American Legion state convention in Milbank, SD. South Dakota passed a resolution to start a summer baseball league every June.

The American Legion National Convention held in Omaha, NE, passed a resolution inaugurating baseball leagues; local, Departmental, sectional,…