HLS 19RS-989 ORIGINAL
2019 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 45
BY REPRESENTATIVES MIGUEZ, BOURRIAQUE, AND NANCY LANDRY
COMMENDATIONS: Commends Joe Cormier, III, for his outstanding achievements in
youth baseball
1 A RESOLUTION
2To commend Joe Cormier, III, upon his 2019 induction into the International Babe Ruth
3 Hall of Fame and for his many achievements in youth baseball.
4 WHEREAS, a love of sports led seven-year-old Joe Cormier to minor league
5baseball, where he played two years; in 1960, Joe moved up to little league baseball, which
6served as a springboard to Babe Ruth baseball; in three years, from 1963 to 1965, Joe played
7on two Babe Ruth league championship winning teams and tied for the championship in his
8final season of play; and
9 WHEREAS, in 1974, Joe served on the stadium committee for the Babe Ruth World
10Series, the first world series hosted in Louisiana; played in Abbeville, the series broke
11attendance records and was the first one to make a profit for the Babe Ruth league; and
12 WHEREAS, in the twenty years from 1975 to 1995, Joe Cormier coached 15-year-
13olds in Abbeville, was named assistant coach for the first Louisiana Babe Ruth 13-year-olds
14state tournament, served as president for the A. A. Comeaux Babe Ruth League in Abbeville
15for five years and was inducted into the A. A. Comeaux Vermilion Youth Hall of Fame for
16Babe Ruth Baseball; he was also Louisiana Assistant District 3 commissioner, coached 10-
17year-olds in the Abbeville Bambino League, was manager of the 10-year-old Louisiana
18Bambino and the Southwest Regional runner-up teams, served as assistant director for the
1915-year-olds state tournament, and was named financial director for the Cal Ripken World
20Series in Abbeville after he raised $100,000 in three years for the renovation of Ralph Sellers
21Field; and
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1 WHEREAS, Joe is a member of the national Babe Ruth World Series task force and
2the Babe Ruth Golden Alumni Club, chairman of the Babe Ruth Southwest Region Hall of
3Fame committee, commissioner of the 13-to-15 year-olds division of the Southwest Region,
4and a member of the national Babe Ruth Alumni Association, from which he received the
5Golden Bat Award as the top fundraiser in the Southwest Region; he is a member of the
6Capital Building committee; in 2013, Joe established the Louisiana Babe Ruth Hall of Fame,
7and since 2014, Chevron Corporation has donated $1,000 yearly to Babe Ruth, Incorporated,
8in the name of Joe Cormier in recognition of his many years of volunteerism to the
9organization; and
10 WHEREAS, in January 2015, Joe Cormier was inducted into the Louisiana Babe
11Ruth Hall of Fame; in April 2015, he was inducted into the Babe Ruth Southwest Region
12Hall of Fame and was appointed national vice chairman of the Babe Ruth League Alumni
13Association, national chairman of its fundraising development committee, and is a member
14of its steering committee with responsibilities for the management and monitoring of long-
15term plans and investment projects for the association; and
16 WHEREAS, in recognition of forty-one years of exemplary service to Babe Ruth,
17Incorporated, Joe Cormier, III, was inducted in February 2019 into the International Babe
18Ruth Hall of Fame; he has been named director of the 14-year-olds Southwest Regional
19Tournament in Eagle Pass, Texas, which will be played in July 2019, and has been appointed
20director of the 2nd Annual Cal Ripken Invitational Tournament in Jansen Beach, Florida,
21in August 2019; Joe has ushered more than three thousand children into the world of
22baseball and softball in Houma, more than three hundred fifty in St. Francisville, and more
23than four hundred in Ascension Parish; and
24 WHEREAS, Joe Cormier, III, has dedicated much of his life to introducing and
25fostering young athletes in the American favorite pastime of baseball; he believes the heart
26of a volunteer is not measured in size, but in the depth of his commitment to making a
27difference in the lives of others; it is fitting to recognize his volunteer heart and to herald his
28outstanding accomplishments and contributions to Louisiana and to the Southwest Region
29of Babe Ruth League, Incorporated.
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HR NO. 45
1 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
2Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend Joe Cormier, III, for his outstanding work
3in youth sports and his unwavering dedication to Babe Ruth baseball and does hereby
4express enduring pride at his induction into the International Babe Ruth Hall of Fame.
5 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
6to Joe Cormier, III.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HR 45 Original 2019 Regular Session Miguez
Commends Joe Cormier, III, for his outstanding achievements in youth baseball.
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