“It was my first Silver Valley Tournament as athletic director, so I was still learning,” Bailey remembered. “There was about a minute and a half left in the championship game, and Kellogg was going to be the tournament champions, and I started thinking, ‘Geez, do we need a trophy for this?’ So I looked at Drager and said, ‘Hey, Coach, do we hand out a trophy for this? I remember in high school, we used to get a trophy.’
In true and humble statesmanly fashion, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. refused to take the glory for creating the American Legion.
“No one man can claim to be the founder of The American Legion," he once said, according to legion.org, the American Legion's website.
We told the stories of two of the incoming Hall of Famers Randy Mueller (last week) and Bill Bopp (a couple years ago).
It was also pretty cool to hear the stories of the other inductees, Jackie Ross Mattox and Darrah Eggers.