John L. Griffith was an early 20th-century college sports administrator whose call to action inspired the creation of American Legion Baseball in 1925.
Mount Carroll, IllinoisHe attended tiny Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he became the sports editor of the school newspaper before graduating in 1902.
It was there that he earned the rank of major — and was later often called by his military rank when back in civilian life.Soldiers find ingenious ways to scale a wall during training at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, circa 1918. American Legion Baseball founder John L. Griffith, and other World War I veterans, were dismayed by the overall fitness of American troops entering the conflict.
"Baseball is a pastime and a passion for the people of Milbank and the surrounding area," Tim Jurgens, past commander of Miller-Birch American Legion Post 9 in Milbank, told Fox News Digital.has sponsored Legion Baseball almost since its inception," notes the American Legion in its history of its baseball program.
MEET THE AMERICAN WHO CREATED THE NATION'S FIRST SPORTS BAR IN ST. LOUIS: WORLD WAR II VETERAN JIMMY PALERMO Indians pitcher Bob Feller was six years into his Hall of Fame baseball career when he risked his future as an athlete to enlist in the U.S. Navy on the darkest day in its history: Dec. 7, 1941. John L. Griffith died in Chicago on Dec. 7, 1944, three years to the day after the nation was plunged into World War II withMajor John L. Griffith was a leading figure in American youth and collegiate sports in the first half of the 20th century.
"He probably would have known that the needs he saw after World War I for athletic training would have produced some success." The 1930 American Legion Baseball team from Post 9, Milbank, South Dakota. American Legion Baseball was born in Milbank in 1925 — and the community still embraces its baseball heritage today.
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