Home Page of Kenosha Legion Post 21 Merchants Baseball
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Quote of the Day
"You shoot for the heavens; you shoot for the stars; you get there. You certainly are not going to get there by not aiming at them." — Rush Limbaugh
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 7 in Baseball History...
1957 - The AP poll names Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford its National League Rookie of the Year with 16 votes. He beats out his teammate, first baseman Ed Bouchee.
1963 - Catcher Elston Howard becomes the first black ever voted American League Most Valuable Player. New York's Howard tops Detroit's Al Kaline 248 to 148.
1964 - With their home attendance below 800,000 for the past two seasons, the National League orders the Braves to stay in Milwaukee in 1965, but permits a move to Atlanta in 1966.
1967 - Orlando Cepeda of the Cardinals is the first unanimous selection as National League Most Valuable Player.
1978 - Boston's Jim Rice beats out New York's Ron Guidry, 353-291, to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award. Rice led the league in hits (213), triples (15), home runs (46), RBI (139), and slugging (.600) and became the first American League player to accumulate 400 total bases in a season since Joe DiMaggio in 1937.
1979 - Cubs reliever Bruce Sutter, who had a 2.23 ERA and saved 37 of his team's 80 victories, wins the National League Cy Young Award by a 72-66 margin over Houston's Joe Niekro.
1989 - Baltimore's Gregg Olson becomes the first relief pitcher to win the American League Rookie of the Year Award.
1990 - Cleveland's Sandy Alomar, Jr. wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award unanimously, joining Carlton Fisk and Mark McGwire as the only players to do so.
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