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Show Legion Film On Junior Baseball Booked For Grove A short film, "Legion At Bat" featuring the magnitude and importance im-portance of the junior baseball program of the American Legion, is booked to play at the Grove Theatre, September 20, 21, according accord-ing to Viron Washburn, commander comman-der of the local Legion Post. The sixteen Pleasant Grove boys who played in the Legion's Junior baseball program this year are to be guests of manager Keith Miller for the showing of this picture. pic-ture. Highlights of the film show sequences se-quences from the 1952 National Convention parade in New York City, during which America's No. 1 Legionnaire, President! Eisenhower, Eisen-hower, breaks ranks to greet and shake hands with World War II and Korean War wheel-chair veterans; vet-erans; the election of National Commander, Lewis K. Gaugh at Madison Square Garden; the growth and development of American Amer-ican Legion Jr. Baseball with Star graduates Larry Jansen, Warren Spahn, Virgil Trucks, Bob Feller, Ralph Kiner, Stan Musial, Pee Wee Reese, Ed Lopat, Ted Williams Will-iams and many others. |