16/04/2020
Anyone interested in playing baseball in an independent league with your local teammates PLEASE READ. This is an email from Greg Michalski, Head Coach of Oxford Legion:
All,
I hope everyone is staying safe during these trying times. Just want to take a moment before we get into baseball items to thank all of our healthcare workers, first responders, police and other essential personnel who are part of our Oxford and Octorara Legion family that are keeping our world running these days. All of you are amazing and you deserve a huge thank you for everything you do each day.
For baseball, I have some bad and good news for you all.
As of Monday April 13th, the PA State Commander for American Legion baseball announced that the 2020 season for PA was cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The National Tournament was cancelled late last week. That is the bad news.
The good news is the State Commander urged local district officials and coaches to try to hold games and put together some sort of local season. The coaches and directors of Chester County Legion have continued to communicate throughout the entire pandemic. We have all decided that whenever Govenor Wolf and the Federal government lift the Stay At Home Orders and once it is safe to do so we will schedule games and hold a season. The interest is very high from all the other programs (Kennett, Paoli, Downingtow, Westtown, etc.) to have a seaon this summer as long as we are allowed too. This will most likely be an independent league.
Our plan is to put teams together for each age group 12-18. Other teams in the district are working on the same. We would like to get this message out to as many players as possible. I understand that it is a difficult time for the High School players, especially the seniors, to miss their entire school seasons. If we have enough players we will enter multiple teams into this 2020 summer league.
As of right now we are working on securing fields for when everything is lifted. We are determining schedule format and ensuring we have umpires for when we resume. We will take a few weeks to practice once the orders are lifted and will begin games soon after. If you could, please respond with your interest in the team? Please do not reply all. Just reply to myself or Bruce Michalski.
Could you also please pass this message on to your teammates and friends that have interest in playing?
I hope you all stay safe. We will all get through this together.
Thanks,
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Coach Greg
215-680-6469
mailto:[email protected]
