In 1996 legion posts spent more than $16 million to sponsor 4,800 baseball teams representing more than 89,000 players. Champions from the state level meet on the national level in the American Legion World Series tournament. The American Legion has always been a strong advocate for U.S. ...
Hundreds of local American Legion programs and activities strengthen the nation one community at a time. American Legion Baseball is one of the nation’s most successful amateur athletic programs, educating young people about the importance of sportsmanship, citizenship and fitness. The Heroes to Homet...
American Legion N organización de veteranos de las dos guerras mundiales LEGION American plan N (US) (in hotel)→ (habitación f con) pensión f completaAmerican Spanish N→ español m de América AMERICAN DREAM El término American Dream, (el sueño americano), se refiere a los valores...
He published more than forty books, was awarded the American Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was designated a knight of the French Legion of Honor. The historical retrospective From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000), widely considered his ...
YES, HE REALLY CARRIES A 1958MICKEY MANTLECARD “The 1958 Mickey Mantle card happens to be the first baseball card that I remember. I was six years old. It cost five cents. You’d get the pack of cards, which had five cards and a piece of chalky, powdery gum that, if you dropped...
Today a new legion of monks, young and old, carry on the ancient traditions of Cambodian Buddhism. Each morning, upon completing their daybreak litanies, they spread through Phnom Penh from their monastery bunks, accepting donations in alms bowls for the prayers they utter at shops and restauran...
Baseball great Yogi Berra famously quipped “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” I am writing this anthology of my blog posts as a guide map as Black voters decide which political south fork to take. Yes, Black Republicans are as much a part of our community as Black ...
Legion of Foreigners Eager to find soldiers to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, in 2002, the Bush ad- ministration offered green card holders a virtual guarantee of citizenship if they would serve in the military. Permanent residents who enlist can apply to become citizens on the first day of...
PostedbyKeith MuchowskiinBaseball ≈Comments Off I’m up early today because I’m off to the rehab center to visit a friend who suffered a bad fall in late August. He was in the hospital for several weeks until being transferred to this second facility. Our meeting on a Sunday was alrea...
legendary Jim McKay — one of Costas’s broadcasting idols. Then there’s his respected play-by-play work forMajor League Baseballgames, as well as his hosting ofNational Hockey Leaguecontests onNBC, the Kentucky Derby, and the newish Sunday NightFootball. He even had a six-year stint as ...