Hazel Dell Metro Babe Ruth, a youth baseball organization with 17 World Series appearances and more than thirty state championships, decided to cease operations in 2017 — a move that reflects a cultural change that threatens programs in all youth sports today. Rather than accept this fate, the Vancouver Cardinals Baseball Club — one of the premier teams of HDM — chose to return to its roots as a member of American Legion Baseball, the organization in which it originally gained national prominence. This rebranding was part of the overall effort.