Duluth city officials and the Parks and Recreation Department will dedicate Bunten baseball field one as the Mike Morrow Field at 9 a.m. Saturday at 3180 Bunten Road.
The field, known as the pony field, was built in 1999 to provide pony baseball for 11- and 12-year-old boys and senior boy’s baseball for high school students ages 13 to 15.
Mike Morrow volunteered his services to the Duluth Youth Association, Duluth High School and the Duluth Parks and Recreation Department before serving 17 years as a city employee in the Parks and Recreation Department. From the 1980s until 2014, Morrow umpired baseball, and coached numerous age groups. His father-in-law, Shorty Howell, taught him maintenance standards for athletic fields that are practiced throughout the county today.
Morrow died June 27.
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