Minnesota has been a participant in the
national American Legion Baseball program since its inception in
1925.
Join us in honoring all the following Minnesota Championship
Teams -- and thanking them for their contributions to the great
game of American Legion Baseball.
Year | Champ | District | Runner-Up | District | Tournament Site | Reg'd Teams in MN |
2017 | St. Paul (Tri-City Red) | |||||
2016 | Woodbury Blue | 3 | Forest Lake | 3 | Delano | |
2015 | Wayzata | 10 | Eden Prairie | 10 | Chanhassen | |
2014 | Lakeville North | 3 | St. Cloud Chutes | 6 | Eagan | |
2013 | Eden Prairie | 10 | Burnsville* | 3 | Edina | |
2012 | Edina | 10 | Eden Prairie | 10 | Chaska | |
2011 | Eden Prairie*+ | 10 | Lino Lakes | 10 | Eden Prairie | |
2010 | Eden Prairie*++ | 10 | Eagan | 3 | Hibbing | |
2009 | Rochester Patriots | 1 | Apple Valley | 3 | New Ulm | |
2008 | Eastview | 3 | Eden Prairie | 10 | Burnsville | |
2007 | Eden Prairie*++ | 10 | Apple Valley | 3 | Bloomington | |
2006 | Eden Prairie | 10 | Coon Rapids | 10 | Excelsior (Minnetonka) | |
2005 | Eden Prairie | 10 | Woodbury Blue* | 3 | St. Cloud | |
2004 | Eden Prairie* | 10 | Apple Valley | 3 | Northfield | |
2003 | Rochester A's*+ | 1 | Bloomington Blue | 10 | Rochester | |
2002 | Apple Valley | 3 | Excelsior*++ | 10 | Marshall | |
2001 | Coon Rapids | 10 | New Ulm Gold | 2 | Rochester | |
2000 | Tri-City Red, New Brighton | 4 | Waite Park | 6 | Duluth | 330 |
1999 | Tri-City Red, New Brighton*+ | 4 | Bloomington Blue* | 10 | St. Cloud | 331 |
1998 | Excelsior* | 10 | South St. Paul | 3 | Hibbing/Virginia | 329 |
1997 | Tri-City Red, New Brighton* | 4 | Hamline, St. Paul | 4 | Chaska/Jordan | 319 |
1996 | Rochester A's | 1 | Excelsior | 10 | Moorhead | 310 |
1995 | New Ulm | 2 | Osseo* | 10 | Hibbing/Virginia | 312 |
1994 | Tri-City Red, New Brighton | 4 | Anoka | 10 | Dundas/Northfield | 258 |
1993 | Tri-City Red, New Brighton | 4 | Osseo* | 10 | New Ulm/Sleepy Eye | 258 |
1992 | New Ulm | 2 | Cold Spring | 6 | Willmar | 246 |
1991 | Excelsior | 10 | Apple Valley | 3 | Mankato | 256 |
1990 | St. Paul Hamline | 4 | Duluth Lakeview | 8 | Richfield | 258 |
1989 | Apple Valley | 3 | New Ulm | 2 | New Ulm | 246 |
1988 | Moorhead* | 9 | Rochester | 1 | Ely | 240 |
1987 | St. Louis Park | 10 | Apple Valley | 3 | Grand Rapids | 239 |
1986 | Waite Park | 6 | Rochester | 1 | Marshall | 236 |
1985 | St. Paul Jacobsen | 4 | Hutchinson | 3 | Richfield | 235 |
1984 | Waite Park | 6 | Willmar | 7 | Albert Lea | 243 |
1983 | Edina*+ | 10 | New Ulm | 2 | New Ulm | 253 |
1982 | Edina* | 10 | Minneapolis-Richfield | 5 | Willmar | 251 |
1981 | Rochester, William T. McCoy | 1 | Hastings | 3 | Ely | 252 |
1980 | Minneapolis-Richfield | 5 | St. Paul Arcade-Phalen | 4 | Richfield | 242 |
1979 | St. Paul Arcade-Phalen | 4 | St. Cloud | 6 | Willmar | 245 |
1978 | New Ulm* | 2 | Bloomington | 10 | Austin | 245 |
1977 | St. Cloud | 6 | Edina | 10 | Ely | 249 |
1976 | St. Cloud | 6 | White Bear Lake | 4 | Willman | 254 |
1975 | Grand Rapids | 8 | White Bear Lake | 4 | Ely | 252 |
1974 | St. Paul Attucks-Brooks | 4 | Bemidji | 6 | New Ulm | 261 |
1973 | Minneapolis-Richfield* | 5 | St. Louis Park | 10 | St. Paul | 263 |
1972 | Minneapolis-Richfield | 5 | Moorhead | 9 | St. Cloud | 262 |
1971 | North St. Paul | 4 | Winona | 1 | Moorhead | 262 |
1970 | Winona | 1 | Minneapolis Gopher | 5 | Winona | 256 |
1969 | Edina | 10 | Moorhead | 9 | St. Cloud | 267 |
1968 | St. Paul Attucks-Brooks | 4 | Minneapolis-Richfield | 5 | St. Cloud | 257 |
1967 | St. Paul Attucks-Brooks | 4 | Minneapolis-Richfield | 5 | St. Paul | 274 |
1966 | North St. Paul | 4 | St. Paul Park | 3 | St. Paul | 339 |
1965 | Rosetown Memorial | 4 | Brooklyn Center | 10 | Winona | 341 |
1964 | Minneapolis Grain Exchange | 5 | Austin | 1 | St. Paul | 348 |
1963 | St. Paul Christie de Parcq | 4 | Austin | 1 | Minneapolis (Parade) | 325 |
1962 | St. Paul Christie de Parcq | 4 | Duluth | 8 | St. Paul | 315 |
1961 | Minneapolis-Richfield | 5 | St. Paul Christie de Parcq | 4 | St. Paul | 285 |
1960 | Fergus Falls | 9 | Norwood | 3 | St. Paul | 314 |
1959 | Minneapolis-Richfield | 5 | Granite Falls | 7 | Austin | 257 |
1958 | Minneapolis Grain Exchange | 5 | Duluth Wisted | 8 | St. Paul | 266 |
1957 | Mankato | 2 | St. Paul North End | 4 | St. Paul | 255 |
1956 | St. Paul North End | 4 | Mpls Grain Exchange | 6 | St. Paul | 248 |
1955 | Edina | 10 | Minneapolis Camden | 5 | St. Paul | 265 |
1954 | St. Paul North End | 4 | St. Cloud | 6 | St. Paul | 257 |
1953 | Austin | 1 | St. Paul North End | 4 | St. Paul | 266 |
1952 | St. Paul North End | 4 | Melrose | 6 | St. Paul | 270 |
1951 | St. Cloud | 6 | Austin | 1 | St. Paul | 271 |
1950 | St. Paul North End* | 4 | Minneapolis-Richfield | 5 | Shakopee | 276 |
1949 | St. Paul North End | 4 | Winona | 1 | St. Paul | 290 |
1948 | Austin* | 1 | St. Cloud | 6 | St. Paul | 287 |
1947 | St. Paul Christie de Parcq | 4 | St. Cloud | 6 | St. Paul | 300 |
1946 | St. Paul Christie de Parcq | 4 | Stillwater | 3 | Duluth | 242 |
1945 | Minneapolis Fire & Police | 5 | Winona | 1 | St. Paul | 118 |
1944 | Minneapolis-Richfield* | 5 | St. Paul Twin City Federal | 4 | St. Paul | 66 |
1943 | Minneapolis-Richfield*+ | 5 | South St. Paul | 3 | St. Paul | 48 |
1942 | St. Paul Hamline | 4 | Robbinsdale | 10 | St. Paul | 89 |
1941 | New Ulm | 2 | Minneapolis Courthouse | 5 | St. Paul | 180 |
1940 | Minneapolis Fire & Police | 5 | Waverly | 10 | St. Paul | 190 |
1939 | Minneapolis Fire & Police | 5 | Blackduck | 6 | Minneapolis | 240 |
1938 | St. Paul Midway | 4 | Cokato | 10 | Minneapolis (U of M) | 240 |
1937 | Railroad, St. Paul | 4 | Cokato | 10 | Fergus Falls | 236 |
1936 | Minneapolis North Side | 5 | St. Paul Christie de Parcq | 4 | Willmar | 300 |
1935 | St. Paul Christie de Parcq | 4 | Mpls Laidlaw* | 5 | Breckenridge | 514 |
1934 | New Ulm | 2 | Cokato | 10 | Cokato | 450 |
1933 | St. Paul Post 8 | 4 | Mpls Kyle | 5 | 4/5th Districts (U of M) | 350 |
1932 | Minneapolis North Side* | 5 | Duluth | 8 | Minneapolis (U of M) | 350 |
1931 | Winona | 1 | Mpls North Side | 5 | Stillwater | 500 |
1930 | Minneapolis North Side | 5 | Parkers Prairie | 9 | Stillwater | 401 |
1929 | Cottonwood | 8 | St. Paul Post 8 | 4 | St. Cloud | 368 |
1928 | St. Paul John de Parcq | 4 | St. Cloud** | 6 | St. Paul | 211 |
1927 | St. Paul John de Parcq | 4 | Cambridge | 10 | Little Falls | 175 |
1926 | Crosby | 6 | St. Paul Navy-Marine | 4 | Mankato | 100 |
*Regional Champion
+National Champion
++National Runner-Up
**Sectional Champion
District designation is based upon today's district lines.
The Ken Skoug Championship Trophy is awarded annually to the State Department Champions. It is named in honor of a past Department Baseball Director, Kenneth Skoug of Duluth, who was lost in a plane crash in Lake Michigan while on his way to the annual Department Convention in Duluth in 1950.
The Mark Haywood Runner-Up Trophy is awarded annually to the State Runner-Up. It is named in honor of the veteran Christie de Parcq Post member who was one of the organizers and longtime coach or manager of this fine team that was located in St. Paul.
The Red Haddox Third Place Trophy is awarded annually too the third place finisher in the Division I Tournament and named in honor of Gerald "Red" Haddox of Bloomington. Haddox pursued a lifelong passion for youth sports that included coaching the Blooming Gold American Legion team and serving as Department Vice Director for six years. He has also been active in other Legion activities, including chairing several state conventions.
The Father Moran Sportsmanship Trophy is named in honor of the first District Director of American Legion Baseball in the Third District. This trophy is awarded to that team displaying the proper attitude both on and off the field, as selected by the sportsmanship committee appointed for this purpose at each State Department Tournament.
Year | Team |
2017 | |
2016 | St. Paul Hamline Purple |
2015 | Princeton |
2014 | Hutchinson |
2013 | St. Cloud Chutes |
2012 | Grand Rapids Post 60 |
2011 | Minneapolis Southwest |
2010 | |
2009 | Grand Rapids Post 60 |
2008 | North St. Paul 39ers |
2007 | Cambridge |
The Fred Wannamaker Outstanding Player Trophy...
Number of State Championships, by District, 1926 through 2016 (91 years):
State Champtionship | State Runner-Up | ||
District | # of Times | District | # of Times |
District 1 | 8 | District 1 | 8 |
District 2 | 6 | District 2 | 3 |
District 3 | 5 | District 3 | 16 |
District 4 | 30 | District 4 | 11 |
District 5 | 15 | District 5 | 10 |
District 6 | 6 | District 6 | 12 |
District 7 | 0 | District 7 | 2 |
District 8 | 2 | District 8 | 4 |
District 9 | 2 | District 9 | 3 |
District 10 | 17 | District 10 | 22 |
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