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Edina Legion Championships: - 1983 National Champions
- Regional Champions (1982, 1983)
- State Champions (1955, 1969, 1982, 1983)
Players
Signed to Professional Contracts: - George Walters (Detroit Tigers, 1954)
- Bob "Rocky" Johnson (Detroit Tigers, 1954)
- Gary Reirson (Minnesota
Twins, 20th round, 1967)
- Lindsey Hoyer (Minnesota Twins, 20th round, 1970)
- Greg Olson (New York Mets, 7th round, 1982)
- Tom Drees (Chicago White
Sox, 17th round, 1985)
- Rick Raether (Texas Rangers, 6th round, 1986)
- Rob Wassenaar (California Angels, 21st round, 1987)
- Peter Raether (Minnesota
Twins, 28th round, 1988)
- Tommy Nevers (Houston Astros, 1st round, 21st overall, 1990)
Fred Wannamaker Award Winners (top MN player): Players at NCAA
Division I schools: U
of MN (Greg Olson, Mike Halloran, Steve Calvert, Kevin Carlson) Stanford (Rob Wassenaar) Notre
Dame (Mike Deasey) U of Miami
(Rick Raether) Arkansas (Pete
Raether) Creighton (Tim McGovern,
Tom Drees) Northwestern (Pat Donahue)
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Recently, Edina Legion has been instrumental
in helping Edina baseball players reach the next level of their game. Since 2000 (JP's first year as Legion coach), these
Legion players have moved on to play college baseball. A sampling of colleges: University of Minnesota-Kevin Carlson (All-Big 10 Tournament 2007) Minnesota State University, Mankato-Jay Bresnahan (All-NCC 2007), Connor Rabinowitz Concordia University (St. Paul)-Robert Dunlop Babson College (MA)-Robbie Leer University
of St. Thomas-Teddy Robinson, Corey Canakes, Nathan Frey University
of Wisconsin, Whitewater-Kris Edwards Carleton College-Ryan
Hultstrand Rollins College-Ian Waldman Macalester College -Will Chen Des Moines Area Community College-Cole Nelson Iowa Western CC-Matt Keys Nate Briscoe-Rochester
(MN) JC
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