Listen to the live broadcasts of all of the 2010 AAA Missouri State Tournament via Team Sports. Rick Cole will bring you all the action as our Zone campions battle for the state title.
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Continue to follow the action next week as Rick Cole and Team Sports brings you the Regional games featuring two Missouri teams. One team will be tournament host Post 499/Fike of blue Springs.
National News
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Legion players honor Marine with a patch
The Kentucky Morehead Mustangs Post 126 American Legion Baseball team is making history. Since the start of the 2010 season, the players and coaches have been wearing a 3rd Battalion 8th Marines (3/8) patch sewn on the right sleeve of their uniform in support of Matt Prater, a former player and current U.S. Marine.
Prater always knew he would join the military after high school; it was just a matter of choosing between the U.S. Army and the Marine Corps. After speaking with family and friends, and hearing real-life stories shared by Morehead Mustangs’ coach John Maggard, a Marine himself, Prater made his decision.
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NEC to decide on permanent Series site
Top: Bill Doenges Memorial Stadium, Bartlesville, Okla.
Bottom: Keeter Stadium, Shelby, N.C.
American Legion Baseball is anxiously counting down the days until the Legion's Spring Meetings, which get underway May 3. During the meetings, the National Executive Committee will make a strategic decision on who will permanently host The American Legion Baseball World Series.
The two cities vying to be the permanent site are Shelby, N.C., and Bartlesville, Okla. Each city has a representing committee that submitted a comprehensive package to the Legion's National Headquarters outlining specific ways their city is making changes and even supporting the opportunity to be the permanent World Series site.
Click here for the entire story on the National siteThe Department of Missouri annually sponsors dozens of teams and hundreds of local players, all with the potential of going on to the Legion's World Series. Many of today's professional players began their careers in Legion baseball.
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State News 2010 AAA State Tournament Set The field is set for the 2010 AAA State Tournament. The action begins Thursday, July 29, at Liberty Park in
Sedalia. Game 1 is at 5:30 PM and has Washington Post 218 taking on Blue Springs Post 499/Fike. In the night cap at 8:30 PM, the Carthage Merchants get the pleasure of playing the defending AAA Champions and World Series participant Festus Post 253. Click here for bracket and times Post 499/Fike 2010 AA Champs
The AA State Champion is Blue Springs Post 499/Fike, who defeated St Charles Post 312 in the championship game. Unfortunately, they will be
unable to go to the AA Regional in Fargo, ND due to an insufficient
number of players able to make the trip. The AA State Tournament second
place team (St. Charles Post 312) will represent Missouri at the
Regional.
Eureka Post 177 won the 2010 A State championship with a victory over Washington Post 218.T
Catching up with Albert Pujols
After being drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1999, Albert
Pujols made his Major League Baseball debut during the 2001 season, and
now ranks among the leading home run hitters in baseball history. The
first baseman holds many awards, including one World Series title,
three Most Valuable Player awards and five Silver Slugger awards.
Pujols' career got underway in the early 1990s after migrating from his native hometown of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Independence, Mo. It was in this small Midwest town where Pujols began his history-making career while playing high school and American Legion baseball. One memorable accomplishment was during an American Legion Wood Bat Invitational where Pujols, wearing the Legion uniform from Hi-Boy Drive/Post 340, hit the longest home run in the tournament's history. However, the 450-foot shot only marked the beginning of Pujols' journey to creating MLB history.
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Festus rallies to claim World Series berth Festus Post 253 is headed to uncharted territory - the American Legion World Series.
Conway helps power Post 253 to regional title
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:14 AM CDT
Festus Post 253 is headed to the American Legion World Series
slugger and is congratulated by a coach earlier in the season.
With back-to-back wins over
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