Edina Legion Championships: - 1983 National Champions
- Regional Champions (1982, 1983)
- State Champions (1955, 1969, 1982, 1983)
- MN Division I State Tournamet
3rd Place (2008)
- South Hennepin Champions (2008)
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) Auburn
University (Cole Nelson) 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: Auburn University-Cole Nelson University
of Minnesota-Kevin Carlson (All-Big 10 Tournament 2007) Minnesota
State University, Mankato-Jay Bresnahan (All-NCC 2007), Connor Rabinowitz Augustana College (SD)-Paddy Carroll Concordia
University (St. Paul)-Robert Dunlop Babson College
(MA)-Robbie Leer University of St. Thomas-Teddy
Robinson, Corey Canakes, Nathan Frey, Kris Edwards St. Olaf College-Erik Nelson Gustavus
Adolphus College-Andy Bartz Carleton College-Ryan
Hultstrand Augsburg College-Taylor Legeros, David
Matyi UW-Stout-Sam Weinberg Rollins College-Ian Waldman Macalester College -Will Chen Washington
University-Eric Peterson Luther College-Danny Smith Indiana U-Purdue-Matt Keys Des Moines Area Community College-Cole Nelson, Matt Keys Nate Briscoe-Rochester (MN) JC
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