View source for Lietuvos Fizinio Lavinimosi Sajunga (Lithuanian Union of Physical Exercise) Club of Kaunas

{{Club
|Coordinates=54.8984964, 23.90354160000004
|Name=Lietuvos Fizinio Lavinimosi Sajunga (Lithuanian Union of Physical Exercise) Club of Kaunas
|Club Name=Kaunas
|Type of Date=Year
|Date=1922/11/01
|Date of Dissolution Type=Day
|Country=Lithuania
|City=Kaunas
|Nine Class=Senior
|Description=<p>In 1922 an American expatriate, Stepanos Darius, "organized the first Lithuanian Baseball League, with a club called 'Lietuvos Fizinio Lavinimois [sic] Sajunga' &nbsp;from Kaunas winning the first championship. The following year &nbsp;Lithuanian team called Aviacijos took the country's first international victory, beating a squad from Estonia 11 to 7. In 1924 Darius took the essential step of translating the rules of baseball from English to Lithuanian." See&nbsp;Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), p. 215.</p>
<p>The LFLS&nbsp;(Lithuanian Union of Physical Exercise) seems to have been an umbrella organization covering other sports as well.</p>
|Sources=<p>Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), p. 215.</p>
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Reviewed=Yes
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|First in Location=Lithuania
}}