Before They Were Famous

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Was looking through an old 1960 Little World Series (American Legion) programs last night and noticed that three of the eight teams in the series had players go on to major league careers.



Mark Belanger




Rusty Staub




Dave McNally




I think that's pretty amazing to have that many future major leaguers in one American Legion tournament...there are possibly more guys that made the majors in this program, but those three names jumped out at me right away of course.

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Posted By: Michael Steele

Dan,

Thanks for posting this. Great stuff. Rusty Staub looks like he is already about 30 in the photo. Do you think the other Staub listed on his team (a Co Capt.) in the front row is a relative?

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I'm sure he's related..probably his brother.

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Posted By: Rich Klein

Google is wonderful -- about 3 paragraphs down
so is the Si Vault

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1086365/index.htm