Welcome to the official new home of the Gopher Classic Legion Baseball Tournament.  This year, we welcome 96 teams from 9 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces making it the largest American Legion tournament in North America.  The tourney starts on Friday July 7 with the championship game concluding the event on Tuesday July 11

The tournament is held on 16 different sites throughout the Twin City Metropolitan area and each team will participate in a pool of 6 teams while playing five games in three days.  All of pool games will be played at the same host site with the exception of Lakeville North that will utilize its traditional two sites at Lakeville North High School and Elko Field in Elko, Minnesota.  

The winner of each pool will move on to the final round of sixteen that will play out on Monday July 10 at four different locations.  This year the playoff round sites will be Bloomington Gold (Red Haddox Field), Eden Prairie (Round Lake Park at the EP Community Center), Exelsior (Veterans field at Minnetonka High School), and North St. Paul (McNight American Legion Field).  

The round of 16 will be narrowed to the final four that will play out with the semi-final round and championship game on Tuesday July 11 at Veterans Field in Minnetonka.  

IThis site will allow you to follow the scores of your favorite team and provide schedules, updated weather information, standings, rules, hotel accommodations through RoomRoster that will save each team significant money, and daily recaps.

Follow your team online at the Gopher Classic.com website.  Our team will be live scoring from select sites at the tournament and will have all games live scored from the final day at Veterans Field in Minnetonka.  The semi-finals and championship games will be audio live streamed while the games are being live scored.  

Each day our editorial team will provide game daily recaps of the tournament along with providing professionally shot images from select locations over the weekend.  We are looking forward to bringing the coverage of this great eyvent to another level. 

The Gopher Classic would like to thank all of the host teams for making the tournament possible.  Their volunteers and efforts are critical to providing a first-class tournament that we are all proud of.  We hope you enjoy the site and look forward to a terrific 2017 Gopher Classic Tournament.