Home Page of Kenosha Legion Post 21 Merchants Baseball
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Quote of the Day
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." — President Andrew Jackson, 7th president (1829-1837)
Welcome to the home page of the Kenosha Legion Post 21 baseball team. The team is sponsored by The American Legion, Paul Herrick Post 21 of Kenosha. Post 21 competes in the Lakes Area Legion League and the Wisconsin American Legion Baseball Class AAA tournament.
Merchants Team Store Now Open
The Kenosha Post 21 Merchants now have a Team Store open for business at Prep Sportswear. Click on the graphic to go order your apparel.
Each order returns 15% to the Merchants baseball program.
Simmons Field/KSBO
The Official Simmons Field website as well as that of the Kenosha Simmons Baseball Organization.
GKYBSA Web Site
The website for the Greater Kenosha Youth Baseball-Softball Association is up and running. The GKYBSA is a group of civic-minded people supporting baseball and fastpitch in Kenosha.
You can check it out here: Greater Kenosha Youth Baseball Softball Association
Today In Baseball History
On November 28 in Baseball History...
1944 - Hal Newhouser is named Most Valuable Player in the American League, gathering four more votes than teammate Dizzy Trout. Newhouser's 29 wins contrast his 34 combined wins the previous four years. His 2.22 ERA is bettered by Trout (2.12), who also has 27 wins.
1950 - Having already ousted Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley fires Burt Shotton as manager. Chuck Dressen, manager of Oakland in the Pacific Coast League, is named as his replacement.
1957 - Warren Spahn of the Braves wins the Cy Young Award as the major league's top pitcher almost unanimously. The only competition for the 21-game winner is White Sox hurler Dick Donovan, who receives one vote.
1958 - The American League announces that its Opening Day game in 1959 will be the earliest ever, April 9.
1969 - Second baseman Ted Sizemore (.271) becomes the seventh Dodgers player to win National League Rookie of the Year honors.
1973 - Al Bumbry beats out five other vote-getters to win American League Rookie of the Year honors. The Orioles outfielder played just 110 games, but tied for the league lead in triples (11) and batted .337.
1978 - The Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after nine years, during which the club averaged 96 wins per season and won five divisional titles, four National League pennants, and two World Championships.
1979 - Pitcher Rick Sutcliffe, who went 17-10 for the sub-.500 Dodgers, receives 20 of 24 votes to earn the National League Rookie of the Year honors.
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