Pennsylvania

American Legion Baseball

As tough economic times have hit the country, most businesses have looked to reduce spending and costs where possible.  The American Legion is no different, and this summer will begin a new policy that aims to reduce travel costs and concerns for national regional play.  In years past, those states with more than one representative (both Pennsylvania and NJ in the Mid-Atlantic) would send their teams to different tournaments.  For instance, PA would send t...

Though the PA ALB is in full swing, we wanted to pass along some unfortunate and rather unsettling news from PA's Region 7.  The defending region champion and longtime state power, State College, is not fielding a team this summer.

The shocking news comes after their manager was unable to return and many players left for neighboring AAU and other travel teams.  This means that this summ...

We've received a large amount of inquiries from concerned parents and coaches about what bats are and are not legal for use in the 2011 season.  We'll attempt to clarify the regulations as best as we understand them.

To put it simply, in 2011 legion baseball is still under last year's rules of general BESR bats being allowed and BESR composite bats being illegal.  BBCOR bats are legal t...

A few weeks into the legion season and there are already some familiar, and some unfamiliar, teams rising to the top of their respective leagues in Region 2.

Boyertown has jumped out to a quick 6-0 start in the Berks County League.  Twin Valley, who may very well be their top competition, has yet to play a game yet due to the success of their high school team.  They'll have to play anot...

Bear Stadium in Boyertown, PA will be featured in a segment on 'Classic Venues' on Comcast Sportsnet.  It will air for the first time at 11:30pm on Tuesday June 7th on Net Impact Philly and continue to air on the Comcast networks over the next month or so.

We'd like to take this time to thank all of you for your support and visits thus far this season.  In light of hateful and spam-type comments being posted to the site, we have disabled the ability for non-members to comment on our stories.  Don't worry though, commenting for members is still the same as always.

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It isn't often that an American Legion Baseball pitcher hurls his way to throwing a no-hitter.  That's what makes Max Henry's start to the season almost unprecedented.  The Latrobe pitcher has thrown two consecutive games without surrendering a hit to the opposition.  

In two complete game outings this year, totaling fifteen innings, the Jethawks' ace has struck out an eye-popping ...

The following is an article written by Kevin Manero, the head coach of the Nor-Gwyn Hawks of the Bux-Mont League in southeastern PA's Region 2.  Kevin has been at the helm for one of PA's most successful teams for nearly a decade.  He managed the 2005 state champions and continues to produce quality teams and players that are always in the hunt for another state title.  

On Saturday evening before the commencement of a Bux-Mont League game against Perkiomen, Nor-Gwyn will pay homage to longtime Perkiomen manager Ernie Quatrani.  Coach Quatrani managed the Perkiomen legion team for twenty-four successful seasons before retiring last summer.

The tribute will take place at Hostelley Field before the 7pm game.  While you're there you can take in some of the...

In PA's Region 3, no team is off to a better league start than Bristol in the Lower Bucks League.  They knocked off Bensalem by four and won a couple close games against Yardley-Morrisville.

Things didn't go quite as well for Falls this weekend.  Despite throwing up twenty-eight runs in two weekend games against foes from New Jersey, the Region 3 natives were unable to come away with a ...

A bunch of games have taken place this weekend in PA's Region 7.   Results are as follows:

Cambria County

Ebensburg 2, Claysburg 1

Portage 6, Cernic's (Conemaugh) 4

Bedford 8, Patton 6

Westmont 9, Lilly 6

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As is generally the case this time of year, many high school teams across the state are still competing in the PIAA playoffs.  As such, many early season legion games have been postponed to later dates. 

We'll post as many legion scores as possible once the games resume.

Clearfield and Punsutawney kicked off their seasons on Sunday afternoon with their Jefferson County League opener.  Braedon Pennington paced the home team on the mound, pitching all seven innings for the win.  He surrendered just four hits and three earned runs while striking out fourteen in what will surely be one of the top strikeout performances the state will see this year.

Andrew R...

As we receive scores from around the state they'll be posted as soon as possible on their respective regional news page.  Those games featuring teams from two different regions will have the result posted on both pages.

To access the regional news pages, simply click the region heading for whichever page you wish to access.

After three years without fielding a team in the Indiana County League, Blairsville will return this year to league play.  Blairsville's addition means there will be a six team field this season in Indiana County.  This is great news for the league, as it looks to build on a successful 2010 campaign.  Last year's league champion Homer City had great success at the regional level, finishing second in Region Seven to champion and perennial power State Colleg...

It is a distinct honor to welcome our loyal fanbase to the second season of our unprecedented and unrivaled coverage of Pennsylvania American Legion Baseball!  After Midwest City, Oklahoma secured the 2010 ALB World Series national championship, we went to work upgrading the site in every way imaginable.  Several hundred hours of work later, and we're ready for some baseball.

We wanted ...

In a continuing effort to serve our loyal fanbase as best as we possibly can, we've added yet another new social networking feature to the site.  As you've seen on the sidebar located on the right side of the page, we have our 'palegionball' Twitter feed streaming live.  Now, it's your turn to post information directly to our site!

Underneath the existing Twitter feed you'll now see one...

We've added new pages under the 'articles' heading for the exclusive interviews we conducted with Boyertown coach Rick Moatz and Nor-Gwyn coach Kevin Manero.  If you haven't gotten a chance yet, please give them a read!

Region 6 will see a major overhaul in the alignment of its leagues this summer.  While the Beaver County and Fayette County leagues will remain the same as last year, the teams of the Allegheny Southern, Mon-Yough, Ohio River, and Allegheny River leagues will take part in league realignment.

The four leagues will condense into three, hereby known as the Allegheny East, South, and West.  ...

The 2011 PA Eastern Regional Tournaments will be held July 23rd to 27th in the following towns: Boyertown, Spring City, Wayne (at Radnor High School),  and Scranton.

The Western Regional will be held in Homer City over the same date span.

The 2011 PA Jr. Legion State Tournament will be held in Homer City between July...