quote:Originally posted by wogdoggy:
heres a stat thats HARD to argue with
On an average, 50 percent of Major League Baseball players played American Legion Baseball as teenagers. Nearly 70 percent of all college players played American Legion Baseball as teenagers.
wogdoggy...I love the idea of legion ball however where we live Legion ball has pretty much fallen apart. We had three legion programs merge just so they could field one team. Based on this and other factors over the last several years I'm thinking your stats may be a bit skewed.
If you are including players that played any form of Legion ball (Jr. Legion/Sr. Legion) you may be right. With that said, around here very few of the recruited/drafted players were on a Legion team past the Jr. Legion years (13-15).
I guess you could say that a large percentage of MLB or College players were on Legion teams however recreational youth leagues could make the same claim.
