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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The Clinton County Baseball League is an amateur
3baseball league established in 1945 by a group of men which
4included St. Louis Cardinal and Major League Baseball Hall of
5Famer Red Schoendienst, and also Whitey Koralski, William
6Zinschlag, Harry Wieter, Earl Taylor, Vince Kalmer, Butch
7Imming, and Gus Heidemann; and
 
8    WHEREAS, The men formed the league in order to offer Sunday
9entertainment to the citizens of Clinton County in the form of
10amateur baseball; the Clinton County Baseball League presented
11to talented and ambitious amateur baseball upstarts the
12opportunity to compete in front of a passionate audience; and
 
13    WHEREAS, In the league's inaugural season, it elected Bill
14Zinschlag as president, Harry Wieter as vice president, and
15Earl Taylor as secretary-treasurer; six Clinton County
16communities, including, Albers, Aviston, Bartelso, Breese,
17Damiansville, and Germantown, fielded teams for the opening
18Clinton County Baseball League season in 1945; and
 
19    WHEREAS, Germantown is the only community of the original
20six to have continuously fielded a team in the league; and
 
21    WHEREAS, Each game is played in accordance with American

 

 

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1League Baseball rules and regulations; players have emerged
2from Sunday afternoon baseball in the Clinton County Baseball
3League to all ranks of professional baseball competition; and
 
4    WHEREAS, As one of the oldest amateur baseball leagues in
5Illinois, the Clinton County Baseball League will be
6celebrating its 75th year anniversary this year; this November,
7the Clinton County Baseball League will be commemorating both
8its 75th anniversary as well as the Clinton County Baseball
9League Hall of Fame Class of 2019; therefore, be it
 
10    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
11HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
12we congratulate the Clinton County Baseball League for its 75
13years of providing indispensable entertainment to the
14communities within Clinton County and the Clinton County
15Baseball League Hall of Fame Members on the honor of being
16inducted into such an historic organization; and be it further
 
17    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
18presented to each member of the Clinton County Baseball League
19leadership and to the Germantown baseball team for its 75 years
20of continuous membership in the Clinton County Baseball League.