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LIONS INVITATIONAL The Lions Clubs of San Diego and Imperial Counties are hosting the 58th Annual (Mike Morrow) Invitational High School Baseball Tournament the week before Easter in 2008 on March 17-20. Planning is in work. This tournament is the oldest, the biggest and the best high school tournament in the nation. This last spring of 2007, we had a record 118 schools entered and the players came from as far away as Nevada, Arizona and Utah. The tournament was founded by Dewey J. Morrow, a member of the San Diego Lions Club, who, together with fellow high school baseball coach Les Cassie, convinced the Lions Club to sponsor a high school baseball tournament back in 1950. Mike ran the tournament until the early 70's. After his death, the Lions honored his legacy by naming the tournament after him. Today, the Lions Invitational Baseball Tournament is the oldest and largest competition of its kind in the U.S. Lions members meet for eight months to plan and execute this major endeavor which takes place every year during Easter week. The Tourney is attended by team scouts…in fact over 120 high school baseball players who have competed in this tournament have gone on to have careers in Major League Baseball, including Eric Karros, Graig Nettles, Bob Boone, Thad Bosley, Randy Johnson, Barry Zito and Alan Trammell. Please go to WWW.LIONSBASEBALL.ORG to find out more about the Lions Invitational Tourney and specific information for the 2008 Tournament — the still the biggest and best! Our volunteers are invited to: Lions at the Padres Night April 17th vs Colorado Rockies 7:05pm
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