Pa Legion Baseball (2024)

FAQs

Is there a 10 run rule in Legion baseball? ›

During the regular season, departments may allow senior and junior teams to play seven-inning games with a 10-run mercy rule after 5 innings of play or 4½ innings if the home team has the last at-bat. All national tournaments will follow rules established by The American Legion's National Americanism Commission.

History. The American Legion first sponsored a baseball league in 1925. In the first American Legion Baseball World Series, Yonkers, New York, Post 321 beat a team from Pocatello, Idaho, in Philadelphia in 1926.

reminder of how this cherished Americanism program began. The program's purpose is explained best by a portion of that inscription: "A program of service to the youth of America." Since its beginning more than 10 million young people have played American Legion Baseball.

Each year young people, ages 13 to 19, participate. Since its inception in 1925, the league has had millions of players, including countless who have gone on to play in college and professional baseball, with 82 inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

During the regular season, the department committee may allow senior teams to play seven-inning or nine-inning games with a 10- run mercy rule after five innings of play or 4½ innings if the home team has the last at-bat .

National tournament play will feature seven-inning games

Departments will still have the option to play nine-inning games during the regular season, however, beginning at the state tournament and all the way through the American Legion World Series, games will be seven innings.

Due to all the camps and showcases in the country and with the Major League Scouting Bureau dissolved, Major League Baseball teams hold a limited the number of professional tryouts. Only a handful of teams still hold open tryouts, usually during the summer and after the annual draft.

The American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) is a separate entity from the American Legion that shares the same values. It is composed of spouses, mothers, daughters, granddaughters, and sisters of American war veterans.

American Legion Post No. 1, Wheeling, is the country's oldest legion chapter. Organized by Joe Reass, Tom Cummins, George Houston, P. J. McGinley, and Edmund Lee Jones, the group met at the Laconia building, on the night of March 1, 1919, to form a World War Veterans of America organization.

Players who have graduated high school but not attended college are eligible for the draft, as are those who have completed at least one year of junior college. Players attending four-year colleges are eligible to be drafted upon completing their junior year or turning 21 years old.

What age group watches baseball? ›

The average age of an MLB.TV viewer has dropped four years -- from 48 to 44 -- since 2018. Playfly Sports' audience data shows that MLB and the NFL have nearly identical audience makeups, with 51% of their viewers under 44.

4.3 A game will end any time after 5 innings, or after 4 ½ inning if the team is 10 or more runs behind and has completed its turn at bat.

Run rules can be applied in the seventh inning when one team leads by 10 or more runs. But it's not always applied, like in the College World Series in 2023, when Florida led LSU 15-3 after seven innings. If the games is scheduled for seven innings, the run rule is applied in the fifth.

Games will end if the home team is ahead by 10 runs after 3 ½ innings of play. 4 complete innings for visiting team. 3. There will be a 5 run rule per inning.

If after four (4) innings [Intermediate (50/70) Baseball Division/Junior/Senior League: five innings), three and one-half innings [Intermediate (50/70) Baseball Division/Junior/Senior League: four and one-half innings] if the home team is ahead, one team has a lead of ten (10) runs or more, the manager of the team with ...