Tri-City Baseball Current News & Upcoming Events

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News for All Tri-City Baseball Programs

(March, 2008) Registration and Tryout Dates Announced for Youth Baseball

Mounds View Area Registration is Now Closed!
Thank you for your interest! See you at tryouts!

Registration
For those interested in playing on one of Tri-City's Youth Baseball teams (serving youth born on or after January 1, 1989 who attend a Mounds View area school and/or reside in Mounds View School District #621), two registration dates have been scheduled, as shown below. (Teams involved include the Tri-City Red American Legion team and the Tri-City Gold American Legion team.)

When:	Saturday, April 5, 2008, or
	Saturday, April 12, 2008
Time:	12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Where:	Tri-City American Legion Post 513
	400 Old Highway #8
	New Brighton, MN 55112
Teams:	For both Mounds View area teams: Tri-City Red American Legion Tri-City Gold American Legion

The 2008 Tryout fee will be due at the time of registration (see registration form for further information.) At least one parent must accompany all potential players and an original birth certificate must also be presented for inspection at the registration session. Tri-City Baseball volunteer staff will be present to answer questions regarding the eligibility parameters, and to discuss practice schedules, game schedules, equipment needs and requirements, and any travel and expenses that might be involved with tournaments and other team activities.

The registration dates above are joint sessions for the Mounds View area teams. There will NOT be any separate dates scheduled for any individual teams, therefore, it is very important to attend one of these registration dates, if you are interested in playing Tri-City Baseball this summer!

Try-Outs
Joint try-out sessions for the Mounds View area Tri-City Red and Tri-City Gold American Legion teams, will be held as follows (registrants must attend at least one tryout session):

When:	Sunday, April 27, 2008
	Sunday, May 4, 2008
Times:	16 - 19 Year Olds: 12 Noon - 3:00 p.m.
Where:	Irondale High School Baseball Field 2425 Long Lake Road, New Brighton, MN 55112-5267
Teams:	For both Mounds View area teams: Tri-City Red American Legion Tri-City Gold American Legion

NOTE: To be eligible for a try-out, potential players must first register! (see above)

St. Anthony Area:
Registration & Try-Outs
For those interested in playing for the Tri-City Blue American Legion team (serving the immediate area surrounding St. Anthony High School / New Brighton/St. Anthony District #282), a registration and try-out session has been scheduled as outlined below. Youth born on or after January 1, 1989, and who live or attend school in the area of St. Anthony Village are encouraged to attend. : for Sunday, May 4, 2008 from 12:00 Noon to 3:00 p.m. at Palm Field, St. Anthony Village High School, 3303 33rd Avenue N.E. in St. Anthony Village. Potential players (ages 16-19) must bring

When:	Sunday, May 4, 2008
	12:00 Noon - 3:00 p.m.
Where:	Palm Field, St. Anthony Village High School 3303 33rd Avenue N.E., St. Anthony Village
Team:	Tri-City Blue American Legion
What to Bring:	1) A fully-completed registration form, 2) Official birth certificate, 3) At least one parent, and 4) Registration fee (checks made payable to "Tri-City Baseball"

Those unable to attend this session should contact Thad Weber (612-616-0946) or Tyler Johnson (612-998-4455) to make other arrangements.

(March, 2008) Mark Your Calendar NOW for the Tri-City Baseball Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser!

With the help and support of the Tri-City Auxiliary, a spaghetti dinner has been scheduled for Monday, May 19, 2008, as a fundraiser for the 2008 Tri-City Baseball Season. Serving will begin at 5:00 p.m. (and run until 8:00 p.m.) at -- where else?! -- the Tri-City American Legion! Tickets can be purchased at the door -- or in advance from Tri-City Baseball coaches and managers.

Please plan on attending -- and join all of the Tri-City Baseball Program volunteers in supporting a very worthwhile program for the youth of our community!

(1/01) National Director of American Legion Baseball Compliments Tri-City on its Web Site

When an individual American Legion Post implements a web site, the National American Legion asks to be notified, for informational purposes. After the National was notified of the existence of Tri-City's site, Jim Quinlan, Director of American Legion Baseball, who is based in Indianapolis, took the time to look at the site, and forwarded a very complimentary e-mail.

Said Quinlan, "...I am pleased to hear that you have created an Internet site. Your Legionnaires and players will both really enjoy and appreciate the site. I am a big supporter of web sites. I think they are a wonderful tool to help promote the Legion and its programs...[American Legion Baseball] is a good program because we have so many wonderful volunteers that make it great. I can see the pride and hard work in your program through your web site. You have a lot of great information and links."

Saying, "I hope it helps to preserve grand memories for your players," Quinlan also gave permission for Tri-City to use the 1999 American Legion World Series radio broadcasts on its site, as well as game results and statistics for 1999 and 2000. (The National Legion owns the copywrited rights to the radio broadcasts and game results/statistics.) While 1997 regional and world series statistics are no longer available electronically via the National's web site, Quinlan offered to look for hard copy information for us, if necessary. (I already have hardcopy data, however, and hope to also get it onto Tri-City's web site at some point in the future.) Gail

(1/01) "John Skilton's Baseball Links Page" adds Tri-City Web Site to its Directory

"John Skilton's Baseball Links" is a well-known web site that is essentially a catalog of all kinds of baseball-realted web sites. The Skilton site contains literally thousands of links to other baseball-related web sites -- all organized by category. Visitors to the Skilton site can then also "rate" the various web sites that are listed on the Skilton site, using a 1-10 rating systm. (To rate a site, visitors should click on the circled "R" to the left of the site name.) Web sites that get consistently high ratings are then awarded stars on the Skilton site, which helps to drive future visitors to those sites.

I was notified by the Skilton site that Tri-City Baseball was accepted, and Skilton put three listings for Tri-City on their site, as follows:

As administrator of our web site, I can view Tri-City web site traffic reports. Once Skilton listed Tri-City Baseball on its site, I saw a very notable increase in traffic on the Tri-City Baseball pages, which I could also tell was coming directly from the Skilton site. Therefore, I am positive that we are now getting hits from all across the country. Hopefully we are "earning stars" also!

In other "link" and "web site" news, I discovered that the Kennewick Dusters (Washington State American Legion team that was 1999 World Series Runner up) also has a web site. Kennewick's web site administor and I subsequently exchanged e-mail. Many of their folks have visited our site, as through our site, they have access to the 1999 World Series radio broadcasts and stats. While I plan to add many more links to our site (for example, web sites for college baseball teams on which Tri-City alumni are playing, other local Legion, Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle sites, etc.), if you are interested in visiting Kennewick's site, I have placed a link here temporarily. (If you get a strange pop-up message when you first log onto their site, just click "cancel" in the pop-up box.) Gail

(3/01) St. Paul Pioneer Press Publishes News Story About Tri-City Legion

After becoming aware of Tri-City's web site in February, Cynthia Boyd, Staff Writer with the St. Paul Pioneer Press, contacted Commander Norb Stachowski, asking for more information about Tri-City's community programs. In her discussion with the Commander, Cynthia expressed particular interest in Tri-City's blood donor program, indicating that she might wish to run a story about it in the St. Paul paper. She subsequently made arrangements to accompany a group of Tri-City blood donors to the VA Hospital on March 6, 2001, along with a Pioneer Press photographer. The story ran on Thursday, March 8, 2001, and gave praise to Tri-City for its blood donations and its other community programs. It clearly emphasized that the American Legion is a lot more than just a club house where veterans meet to eat, drink and be merry!

For more about Tri-City's Blood Donor Club, take this link to the Blood Donor page of Tri-City's web site.

Similar to the Skilton Baseball Links site (see above), another prominent Baseball Links site out on the web is "Aaron's Baseball Links." Between these two sites, you can find links to just about every baseball-related web site imaginable!

A link to the Tri-City Baseball web page was added by Aaron's in March. To find it, go to Aaron's homepage by clicking here. Then, under Contents, click on "Youth Leagues." Then, scroll down to "Minnesota."

Tri-City American Legion Baseball News

The 2008 American Legion World Series will be held in Shelby, NC on
Friday, August 22, 2008 through Tuesday, August 26, 2008.

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Tri-City Blue News

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Please see the 2008 Shoreview Area Youth Baseball site for information regarding additional participation opportunities outside of the Tri-City American Legion Baseball program.

Information for Web Site for past teams is Needed (Sr. Babe Ruth teams, as well as Mickey Mantle teams)

Historical information on the teams for this web site has been somewhat hard to come by. Therefore, if you have information that you can gather together and submit to me, or if you have materials that you can borrow to me, please contact me at webdesigner@tricitybaseball.org.! I am looking for official team rosters, game/tournament schedules and results, photographs (especially team photos), home field information, historical team data, etc. (Please also let me know what your association is with the team.)

Or, if you know of someone who has information but does not have Internet access, please e-mail his/her name and telephone number to me, and I will contact him/her, referencing your referral. Thank you. Gail

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