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The Boys of Late Spring Return to Dehler
Like the cliff swallows coming (around March 19—St Joseph’s Day) and going (around the Day of San Juan—October 23) to the Mission of San Juan Capistrano in California, these young athletes find their way to Dehler Park in late April or early May to play some American Legion baseball, sometimes against their same-town rivals, the [… Read More]
Scarlets Win State
There is a very nice article in today’s Gazette about the extraordinary effort put forth by our boys in red, and sometimes green as well. Here they are celebrating after the last out on Wednesday evening. The Gazette article online also has a number of good pictures. Their photographers are really good. I saw them [… Read More]
It’s Not Over ‘Til It’s Over
I saw several reminders of this aphorism on the Memorial Day just gone by. One of these was in Laurel Cemetery right next door to the new Yellowstone Veterans Memorial Cemetery. Both of these places were decorated well. The new cemetery still looks new. It won’t be almost empty for long I suspect. As you [… Read More]
More Dispatches: Billings’ Baseball
This is what Dehler Park fans looked like early in the evening Scarlets v Royals matchup. Sorry I couldn’t give you any information on baseball games from Pirtz and Urbaska Fields. The better teams in the tournament and some of my favorites were playing at Dehler Park so that is where I hunkered down much [… Read More]
Legion Baseball Notes from Dehler Park
On Saturday the Royals took on the Bozeman Bucks at Dehler Park in a couple of 7 inning games. On Mother’s Day the Scarlets hosted the Great Falls Stallions in a similar format. I only managed to see parts of the first game of the doubleheaders that were played each day. Apparently the Scarlets opened [… Read More]