KEENE FORMS JUNIOR TEAM
Keene has entered a team into the Junior Legion Program. Please contact Harold Secore, the Keene Senior Team manager to schedule your games. This now brings a total of nine teams to our Junior program for the 2008 season.
HELMET UPDATE
E-mail from Jay Hunnewell 1-3-08: For the 2008 season, coaches on the playing field will be mandated by the National Organization to wear protective headgear. Coaches will wear a helmet with either a single, double or no flap helmet while in the coaches box. Helmet must be uniform in color and consistent with what the rest of the team wears. If your team wears red hats with blue E on it, the helmet will also be red with a blue E on it. He suggests that orders should be placed soon because the non-flap skull caps will bill are hard to find. This article from USA today during General Managers meetings of 2007. MLB GMs: Base coaches must wear helmets in 2008 - ORLANDO (AP) General managers decided Thursday that first and third-base coaches will wear some sort of head protection during games next season, an action taken four months after Mike Coolbaugh was killed when he was struck in the neck by a line drive. Coolbaugh, a former major leaguer and a coach for the Colorado Rockies' minor league team in Tulsa, died July 22 when he was hit as he stood in the first-base coach's box during a Texas League game at Arkansas. Some major league coaches started wearing helmets the rest of the season. "There was a sentiment that as a concept this was a good idea," said Joe Garagiola Jr., senior vice president for baseball operations in the commissioner's office. GMs will decide on the exact form of protection when they meet next month at the winter meetings. "We're going to come back in Nashville with some options: liners, hard caps, helmets without flaps, helmets with flaps," Garagiola said. While no formal vote was taken, Garagiola said the sentiment of the GMs was clear. "Everybody just felt it was a situation that made sense," Detroit Tigers president Dave Dombrowski said. Many batters started wearing helmets after Ray Chapman, a shortstop for the Cleveland Indians, was killed when he was hit by a pitch during a game in 1920. A rule requiring helmets for batters was adopted in 1971. "If you think about the evolution of the batting helmet, unfortunately what ended up happening this year is essentially what happened with Ray Chapman," Oakland general manager Billy Beane said. "I think we need to come up with a recommendation." Garagiola said the recommendation adopted by the GMs next month will not need additional approvals.
STATE TOURNAMENTS AND ALL STAR GAMES SET
The NH Senior Legion Tournament will be held from Friday August 1st to Tuesday August 5th in Rochester, NH. Post #7 will be hosting the tournament to be played at Rochester High School. The NH Junior Legion Tournament will be held at Holman Stadium in Nashua, NH from Sunday August 3rd to Wednesday August 6th. Gill Stadium in Manchester, NH will host three Legion All-Star games on Saturday August 9th. The 16/17 year old game will be first, followed by the 18/19 year old team facing the State Championship team and finally the Junior All-Star game will finish out the day. More information on these events will be forthcoming.
MILFORD JOINS JUNIOR LEGION PROGRAM/NEW BASE COACHING RULES
At a baseball department committee held on Saturday 1-19-08, Milford was approved to become a member of the Junior Legion program for the 2008 season. We also learned that ALL coaches must be in a regular uniform coaching the base paths and each coach must wear a helmet at all times coaching the bases. A coach can wear either a batting helmet with flaps or a catcher skull cap with bill ( a John Olerud helmet). more......
SWING PLAYERS
Note from Jay Hunnewell: Legion National has updated rulebook. There is no longer a maximum number of players that may be dual rostered. Last year you could only swing three players between Junior and Senior ball.
BEDFORD JOINS JUNIOR LEGION PROGRAM/SALEM CHANGES DISTRICT
At a baseball department committee meeting held on Sunday 11-18-07, Bedford was approved to become a member of the Junior Legion program for the season 2008. In the Senior Program, Salem was moved from District A to District B. Also approved was the naming of Rick Harvey of Post 48 as the new Junior American Legion Baseball Director - Department of NH and will also be the web master for the new website for NH Legion Baseball: http:www.newhampshireamericanlegionbaseball.com. Also coming out of this meeting was a directive from Legion National. No screen printing of Legion baseball patches on team jerseys are permissible without approval from National Emblem Sales Director Jeff Brown. Teams not having approval for screen printing must have Legion Baseball patch fastened to uniform. more......
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