[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Pages 24250-24251]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          AMERICAN LEGION SENIOR BASEBALL TEAM PADUCAH POST 31

 Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, today I honor Paducah Post 31 
American Legion Senior Baseball Team, of Paducah, Kentucky for making 
it to the American Legion World Series. In December 19, 2004 this team 
will be gathering to award each team member the World Series Ring to 
Commemorate their accomplishments. I congratulate the Paducah post 31 
American Legion Senior Baseball Team on their accomplishments and look 
forward to seeing their continued success in the future.
  This band of gifted athletes and team players has consistently 
fielded team after team in their region. Their competition was intense 
and they have distinguished themselves just as much by

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their own skill, as by the skill of those they defeated. They began 
their season as just one team among 5,400 others from all over the 
United States and Puerto Rico competing to be in the American Legion 
World Series. They ended it as one of eight teams from all over the 
United States and Puerto Rico, that actually did compete in the 
American Legion World Series.
  As a baseball player I am especially proud of the accomplishments of 
this team from my own State of Kentucky. I know what it means to have 
played the good game, fought the good fight and won. The feeling that 
you have done the right thing by trying your hardest is payback enough. 
But Post 31's baseball team did that and much more, they not only tried 
their hardest, they also made it to the American Legion World Series.
  I am proud of a team that when it does its best, makes it all the way 
to the World Series Eight. That is a great accomplishment of which they 
too should be proud.

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