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We’re Grateful for our Volunteers!
Here’s another one of our wonderful Antioch Sports Legends’ volunteers, Sue Tiernan. Sue is an ASL Board member and the proud mother of 1995 AHS Volleyball Team inductee Jon Tiernan. Sue’s kind enough to send out get well, and birthday cards to our alumni and volunteers and is quick to help when asked. Thank you…
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Antioch Sports Legends Reopens Wednesday, January 5th
After being closed for Christmas and New Year’s, the museum reopens Wednesday, January 5th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm and will return to our regularly scheduled days and hours of Wednesdays and Saturdays from 1-4. Our docent will be 2021 Team Hall of Fame inductee John Parsons from the 1984 Boys AHS Boys Wrestling Team. Come…
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IMPORTANT- New Covid Protocol Requirements for Hall of Fame Induction Gala
We realize that some of you will be coming into town and not from the area, so we wanted to notify you that Lone Tree Golf Course and Event Center will be in full compliance of the latest Covid-19 mandates issued by Contra Costa County for indoor events. The mandate requires all attendees to provide…
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Happy Fifteen Anniversary Antioch Sports Legends!!
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…
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Buy a Brick Today and Support the Antioch Sports Legends Museum!
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,…
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Antioch Sports Legends Re-apply to the Antioch Community Foundation for 2021 Grant
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…
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Gene “Butch” Rounsaville Celebrates 51st Anniversary in MLB
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…
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Snelson Family Honors 2010 Inductee Coach Bill Snelson With Donation to ASL Museum
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…
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64 years ago this week the Antioch Quarterback Club has First Gala Night
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…