LIONS - C.N.E. PEEWEE BASEBALL
CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION 2025
August 15 to 28, 2025

WE NEED YOUR HELP AGAIN!!

You may ask why??

Because we have youth attending this event from all over Ontario. It’s a great opportunity to support our youth and help to continue an annual event. The youth look forward to this every year. Without our support, this will be cancelled.

Some History:

This is the oldest and most prestigious event of its kind in Ontario for 12 – 13-year-olds. Thirty-two teams from Toronto and (southern) Ontario compete over 8 days in a single elimination event.

• The tournament started in 1956.
• In 1997, the CNE was losing money and was going to cancel the tournament unless they found a sponsor. Marv Pearl (a former teacher) was running the tournament and saw a fellow student’s name on the Lions website, DG Wayne Hoey. He asked Lion Wayne if the Lions would consider sponsoring the tournament. That’s how it all began.
• The first year, only $1300 was raised by club donations, but Marv changed the name to the Lions/CNE Peewee Tournament with anticipation of more to follow.
• The following year $5000 was raised through club donations.
• In 1999 the first Snack Bar was opened; all proceeds go back to the tournament.
• 2022 was the 25th year of sponsoring the tournament.
• Our Lions logo is proudly displayed throughout the CNE grounds and in publications due to the district sponsorship.

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