Full Text of HR0557 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Clinton County Baseball League is an amateur | 3 | | baseball league established in
1945 by a group of men which | 4 | | included St. Louis Cardinal and Major League Baseball Hall of | 5 | | Famer Red
Schoendienst, and also Whitey Koralski, William | 6 | | Zinschlag, Harry Wieter, Earl Taylor, Vince Kalmer, Butch | 7 | | Imming,
and Gus Heidemann; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, The men formed the league in order to offer Sunday | 9 | | entertainment to the citizens of Clinton County in the form of | 10 | | amateur baseball; the Clinton County Baseball League presented
| 11 | | to talented and ambitious amateur baseball upstarts the | 12 | | opportunity to compete in front of a
passionate audience; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, In the league's inaugural season, it elected Bill | 14 | | Zinschlag as president, Harry Wieter as
vice president, and | 15 | | Earl Taylor as secretary-treasurer; six Clinton County | 16 | | communities, including, Albers,
Aviston, Bartelso, Breese, | 17 | | Damiansville, and Germantown, fielded teams for the opening | 18 | | Clinton County
Baseball League season in 1945; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Germantown is the only community of the original | 20 | | six to have continuously fielded a team in the league; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Each game is played in accordance with American |
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players have emerged | 2 | | from Sunday afternoon baseball in the Clinton County Baseball | 3 | | League to all ranks of professional baseball
competition; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, As one of the oldest amateur baseball leagues in | 5 | | Illinois, the Clinton County
Baseball League will be | 6 | | celebrating its 75th year anniversary this year; this November, | 7 | | the Clinton County Baseball
League will be commemorating both | 8 | | its 75th anniversary as well as the Clinton County Baseball | 9 | | League
Hall of Fame Class of 2019; therefore, be it
| 10 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 11 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 12 | | we congratulate the Clinton County Baseball League for its 75 | 13 | | years of providing indispensable entertainment to the | 14 | | communities within Clinton County and the Clinton County | 15 | | Baseball League Hall of Fame Members on the honor of being | 16 | | inducted into such an historic organization; and be it further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to each member of the Clinton
County Baseball League | 19 | | leadership and to the Germantown baseball team for its 75 years | 20 | | of continuous membership in the Clinton County Baseball League.
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