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The Hudson Post 100 American Legion baseball team is making its first appearance in the World Series in North Carolina. Keep track of all the action.
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. However, the inaugural season was expensive for the American Legion due to travel costs, and the subsequent season was cancelled.
Post 100, which dropped to 0-2 in Stars Division play, lost Thursday, 9-1, to Troy, the 2022 Legion World Series champion. League City improved to 2-0 in the Stars.
Fargo Post 2 (49-9) is the 2019 runner up, returning to the World Series for the first time since then. The team lost its Central Plains regional opener then rallied with five straight victories.
The stadium is adjacent to Yakima Valley Community College and hosted the American Legion World Series in 1954, 1978, and 2001. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Yakima Beetles, the American Legion team based at Parker Field, won national titles in 1953, 1975, [ 5 ] and 1979.
The winner of the Northeast Regional will advance to the American Legion World Series, where eight teams will compete Aug. 15-20 at Keeter Stadium in Shelby, North Carolina.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
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