Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 9--Assemblymen Go
    ldwater
                  and Ohrenschall

                FILE NUMBER........


ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION--Commending the Nevada Youth 
       Baseball Association and urging the American Legion to 
       award the bid to host the 1997 American Legion World 
       Series Tournament to the Nevada Youth Baseball 
       Association.


  WHEREAS, This season marks the 70th 
anniversary of the founding of American Legion Baseball, an 
organization in which the youth of Nevada and her 49 sister 
states participate; and
  WHEREAS, American Legion Baseball is the 
oldest and largest nationwide baseball program at the high 
school level in the United States, and has continued to grow 
rapidly with the formation of over 800 teams since 1987, 
including many teams created under the statewide 
jurisdiction of the Nevada Youth Baseball Association; and
  WHEREAS, More than 1,000,000 participants have 
benefited from this program of service to the youth of 
America, including many youth in Nevada and almost 75 
percent of all college baseball players and 66 percent of 
all major league baseball players; and
  WHEREAS, In addition to improving the physical 
fitness and athletic prowess of the youth of America, 
American Legion Baseball strives to develop our youth in the 
areas of citizenship, sportsmanship, loyalty and team 
spirit; and
  WHEREAS, American Legion Baseball enjoys a 
history of over 40 years in Nevada; and
  WHEREAS, The Nevada Youth Baseball Association 
has administered baseball programs in Nevada since 1990, 
including serving as statewide director of American Legion 
Baseball in Nevada since 1991; and
  WHEREAS, In addition to administering Legion 
and Junior Legion programs and statewide tournaments, the 
Nevada Youth Baseball Association has significant experience 
staging larger events, including hosting the Western 8 
Regional Tournaments in 1992, 1993 and 1995; and
  WHEREAS, Cashman Field in Las Vegas, Nevada, 
with its extensive facilities, is equipped to handle the 
throngs of fans who will attend the American Legion World 
Series Tournament; and
  WHEREAS, The efforts of the Nevada Youth 
Baseball Association to host the American Legion World 
Series Tournament have generated the enthusiastic support of 
the community for the event and have resulted in generous 
pledges to finance the bid from professional 
organizations and organizations providing community 
services; and
  WHEREAS, The State of Nevada has never had the 
honor of hosting the American Legion World Series 
Tournament, and the Nevada Youth Baseball Association, in 
cooperation with the American Legion Department of Nevada 
and various other professional organizations and 
organizations providing community services, is prepared and 
eager to promote, support and host the American Legion 
World Series Tournament at Cashman Field in Las Vegas, 
Nevada; now, therefore, be it
  RESOLVED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, THE 
SENATE CONCURRING, That the members of the 68th 
session of the Nevada Legislature hereby commend the Nevada 
Youth Baseball Association for its commitment to the youth 
of Nevada and urge the American Legion to award to the 
Nevada Youth Baseball Association, and the various 
organizations cooperating with it, the bid to host at 
Cashman Field in Las Vegas, Nevada, the American Legion 
World Series Tournament, which commences on August 21, 1997; 
and be it further
  RESOLVED, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly 
prepare and transmit a copy of this resolution to the 
Executive Director of the Nevada Youth Baseball Association, 
the National Executive Director of the American Legion and 
the members of the National Executive Committee of the 
American Legion that will award the bid for the 1997 
American Legion World Series Tournament.

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