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This is a 4 game guarantee, 2 pool play into a double elimination tournament. Play could start on Friday evening (depending on number of teams). Pool play games are 70 minutes finish the inning, Bracket play will be 75 minutes finish the inning.

Born from Syracuse History

In 1959, while fishing on Syracuse Lake, local angler Dick Jamison hooked something strange: what he first thought was just a waterlogged log. When he cleared away the moss and mud, he uncovered an ancient treasure: a 21-foot dugout canoe carved from a single massive tulip poplar tree, blackened by centuries beneath the water.

This wasn’t just any boat. It was hand-hewn by unknown hands (possibly Miami tribes, French fur traders, or the earliest settlers) long before a dam raised the lake’s level in 1834 and sent the canoe to its watery grave. For over a hundred years it rested silently on the lake bottom, a forgotten relic of the people who once paddled these waters.

Today, that very canoe is preserved and displayed at the Syracuse-Wawasee Historical Museum, a powerful symbol of resilience, craftsmanship, and the deep roots of our community.

The Dugout Legends tournament honors that spirit. Just as that tulip-tree canoe carried legends across Syracuse Lake generations ago, today’s players step into the batter’s box to carve their own stories (one swing, one pitch, one legendary moment at a time).
Dugout Legends: Where history meets heart, and new legends are born.