The Antioch Sports Legends Program and Museum is proudly celebrating our 15th Anniversary this year and we’re feeling better than ever! We are grateful for the support of the Antioch Community, our ASL Co-Founders, alumni and our many volunteers over the past 15 years. We truly could not have made it without all you! To…
If you would like to support the ASL, purchase a brick today to commemorate your family, special event, loved one, milestone, etc. If interested, click here for a brick form. The brick wall is at the Antioch Legends Museum North entrance in the lower level of the Antioch Historical Society Museum, 1500 W 4th Street,…
The Antioch Sports Legends, along with other non-profits will be re-applying in 2021 for a grant from the Antioch Community Foundation. Thank you once again to Antioch Community Foundation Board of Directors and President Keith Archuleta, for our grant request being approved in 2020! We’re so grateful to be one of the non-profits to have…
Today Antioch Sports History- April 7, 1970- 51 years ago today Antioch High’s Gene “Butch” Rounsaville toes the rubber at Chicago’s White Sox Stadium as a relief pitcher and becomes Antioch’s first Major League Baseball (MLB) player. It would be eight long years before the 6’3’ 205 pound, 1962 graduate would stand facing his first…
The Antioch Historical Museum’s Sports Legends Program Co-Founders, Alumni and volunteers would like to take this opportunity to thank Joyce, Eric and Inger Snelson for your recent very generous donation to the Antioch Sports Legend Program and Museum in the in the memory of your husband, and father Coach Bill Snelson HOF 2010. We are…
64 years ago this week, February 21, 1957, the Antioch Quarterback Club met at Club Marchetti for the first Gala Sports Night. The Master of Ceremonies was Bob Fouts, the Forty-Niner play by play announcer and father of NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts. Future ASL Hall of Fame inductees Worth Shaw and Nick…
2015 Deer Valley High School’s volleyball star, Jordan Ewert has continued his career by playing professional volleyball in Spain for the Ushaia Ibiza team. As a four year starter at DVHS, Ewert was recognized as 2015 East Bay Volleyball Player of the year and selected as Bay Valley Athletic Leagues MVP twice, in 2014 and…
Nicholas “Nick” Rodriguez November 30, 1927 – November 24, 1995
In Memory of Edmund “Babe” Atkinson February 7, 1908 – January 6, 2001
Thanks to Co-Founders Tom Menasco and Eddie Beaudin, the Antioch Sports Legends are benefiting from CoCo Farm’s generosity. For nearly a year Menasco and Beaudin made presentations to the owner/operators of CoCo Farms before an agreement was made last October. This was just in the nick of time as with all of 2020 events being…
