The American Legion National Organization has cancelled all 2020 season’s Regional Tournaments and The American Legion World Series. Concurrently, The American Legion National Organization has shut down all sponsorship and all involvement in baseball for the 2020 season.   This shutdown of all sponsorship and all involvement in baseball for the 2020 season means that those baseball teams that wish to continue playing 2020 season baseball shall be participating in a sporting event not sponsored, nor endorsed in any manner, by The American Legion National Organization, but sponsored and endorsed solely by the group the team is named.

Any baseball team that continues play in the 2020 season sponsored by the group the team is named must understand that its team is not playing as an American Legion National Organization “registered” baseball team and it is not playing in an American Legion National Organization baseball program.   The complete cancellation of the 2020 American Legion National Organization baseball season means there is no American Legion National Organization baseball program “national rules,” nor are there “national guidelines,” as there is no 2020 American Legion national involvement.

In Montana, on May 17, 2020, our teams received approval from our Department’s American Legion Executive Committee to play the 2020 season as “The Department of Montana American Legion Baseball Program - not authorized, nor endorsed by The American Legion National Organization.”  Subsequent to that vote our Department received approval for group emblem-logo use as a one-time limited approval which will expire on December 31, 2020.  This allows our teams to continue to play with jerseys that have the American Legion logo on them.

We all hope that we only play as a Department level program for one season, and that we can return to a nationally sponsored American Legion baseball  program in 2021.

The fee schedule below shows the team registration fees for 2020 season. 
 

Total fees for insurance and team registration for the  2020 season:
 

Tournament Rotations

• Class A Districts.  District rotations can change by teams agreeing to switch years up to host.  Another situation that can change this order is if teams drop out and later come back in.  If a team does drop out and later returns back into the District it will be placed into the bottom of the rotation.

• Class A State. The State A tournament rotates through each District.  Teams selected to host will be based on a tournament bid and selection process.

• Class AA State.   The State AA tournament is set as a fixed rotation of AA teams.  If new teams are added to AA they are added to the bottom of the rotation.